ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 13 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Friday.

The annual gala at New Brighton, which was held yesterday, ended with a fatality. An endrmous crowd had gone to the seaside and the late trams back to town were rushed. George Palethorpe, head waiter at Warner's Hotel, tried to boaird the trailer of a moving tram on the wrong side. The gate was shut, and Palethorpe "was knocked off the step by the pole carrying the overhead construction, and fell under the second trailer of the same tram, the wheels cutting off his left leg and arm. He died in the hospital this morning. He was married and had three children. BOY CAMPERS {SEVERELY BURNT. Christchurch, 'Last Night. Two lads named Phillip and Harold Crampton, living in Albert street, Linwood, w,exe somewhat severely burned to the tent in which they were sleeping catching fire. It appears that early yesterday morning, the elder lad, Phillip, was awakened by smoke, and found the tent and matting ablaze. He awoke the younger lad and they both rushed outside, but they were unable to escape before they had sustained bad injuries. They were both admitted to the hospital, where their injuries were atttended to. One is progressing favorably. The younger lad is the mpre badly burned, 'having sustained injuries to his body, as well as his face and hands. The older lad was burned about the face, hands and feet. A GALA TRAGEDY.

Christchurch, Last Night. The New Brighton gala- yesterday ended in a tragedy. A man named George Palethorpe, who was head porter at Warner's Hotel, was run over by a tram in Sea View road, and received such shocking injuries that he died in the hospital early this morning. The inquest was held this afternoon. Geo. Willis, a boilermaker, said he visited New Brighton the previous day with deceased, at about 9 p.m., by tram. "They kept together all the time. They were going to catch the 10.40 p.m. car on their return to Christchurch. Witness boarded the car first and Palethorpe made to get on the first trailer froift the wrong side while the tram was in motion. He got on the back step of the while leaning out he stmck a tram pole and -was knocked between the first and second trailers. His arm and leg fell aeross. the. rail, and the end trailer went 'over him. Witness jumped off the car and sang out for the tram to be stopped. Palethorpe was dragged some distance before the car pulled up. Witness picked Palethorpe up and took him to the footpath. Witness left him there and went for a doctor, who bandaged him up, and he was taken to the hospital. Palethorpe was quite sober. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased met his death from injuries received as the result of .boarding a tram from the wrong side. A SEAMAN DROWNED.

Christchurch, Last Night. An. inquest on the body of the seaman Campbell, found in the harbor, was held at Lyttelton to-day. William White, nightwatchman on the Waipori, stated that at 1.30 a.m. on the sth inst., the deceased came down to his ship with a message from the lamp trimmer of the Wakatu. Deceased had a bottle of beer, but witness refused to have any of it, and told him to go on board his ship! Deceased, who wa s under the influence of liquor, went off in the opposite direction, and, as he did not witness went to look for him,- and found him asleep on the railway lines at the mouth of the tunnel. Witness took him part of the way to the wharf where the Wakatu was lying) and then went back to his own ship, which he ought not to have left. Deceased must have fallen off the wharf after witness left him at 1.45 a.m. The Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased had been found drowned m Lyttelton harbor. WOMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH.

' Christchurch, Last Night. An elderly woman named Mrs. Morris, residing in St. Asaph street, was found dead in bed this morning by her daughter, who is deaf and dumb. Mrs. Morris had been suffering from asthma, and had been attended by a doctor.