ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 280, 19 April 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MINERS INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waihi, Tuesday. P. Franklin, a miner employed in the Grand Junction mine, was seriously injured through the premature explosion of a charge of gelignite, fracturing his left arm and necessitating amputation. A man named Fauder, employed in the Waihi mine, had a narrow escape after firing the fuse of a charged hole. He was knocked down by a piece of quartz falling overhead, but managed to crawl behind a pile of dirt, thus escaping the full effect of the flying stone following the explosion. A SUDDEN DEATH. Wellington, Last Night. A man named Charles Henry Lea-tham,-65 years of age, died' suddenly in the Sailors' Rest this evening. He had been Buffering for some time from heart trouble, and left the hospital about five weeks ago. A RACECOURSE INCIDENT. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Beaumont races yesterday a horse named Picnic Gun ran through*the crowd while doing a preliminary for the Molyneux Hack Handicap. He jumped or scrambled through a barb-wire fence, and was pulled up half a mile away. A man- named John McPherson was knocked down, and is suffering from concussion of the brain and possibly a fractured skull. He was still unconscious this morning.