ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 133, 27 November 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL BURNING ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dime din, Last Night. A distressing accident, ending fatally, occurred at .Lower Harbor on Wednesday flight. Mrs. C. 11. Pickering, while holding her four months old child in her arms, took a fit and fell into the kitclrni fire. They were alone in the house. Both she and the child were severely burned. On Thursday they were removed to the cottage hospital at Port Chalmers, and ye-.terday morning the child died. Mrs. Pickering's injuries are not of a serious .nature.

Mr. Graham, Coroner, held an inquest this forenoon touching, the death of the child, and. a verdict was returned that death was due to shock resulting from burns accidentally received.

TEHIUTOUIAb SOLDIER FATALLY HURT. Wellington, Last Night. Vernon Richardson, a driver of the D" Battery of the R.F.T.A., was driving along the llutt road o.n Saturday afternoon with other members of the Battery, when he fell off his horse, and a wheel of the vehicle passed over the lower part of Richardson's body, causing severe injuries. lie died in the hospital to-day. Deceased was a single man, and was employed as a chemist's assistant.

DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. Christchurch, Last Night. William O'Rourke, 75 years of age, a farmer residing at Swannaaoa, was found dead in his house at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Death is supposed to be due to heart failure.

KILLED BY A TRAMC'AR. Auckland, Saturday. Flora May McDonald, aged l six years, daughter of a City Council employee, when crossing Eden Terrace behind ;i cart, stepped in front of a trami-ar ami was killed instantly.