ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 202, 6 May 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ASPHYXIATED. By Telegraph—Prow Association Dunedin, Last Night. Michael O'Sullivan, aged 75 years of age, was found dead this morning in a hut in which he resided, alongside Hill and Co.'s coal yard, Rattray street. Apparently he had thrown down a match, which set fire to a sack on the floor. A carter in the employ of the firm noticed smoke issuing from the hut and he broke open the door and extinguished the flames. He returned to the hut when the smoke cleared away and found O'Sullivan in a corner dead. A BAD ACCIDENT. Dunedin, Last Night. Simon Weatherall, a miner employed in Craig's coal mine at Coal Creek, met with a bad accident on Friday. He was brought to the Dunedin hospital. His spine is injured and his condition ia serious. DEATH IN A TRAM CAR. Wellington, Last Night. Robert Mac Donald, employed as watchman at the Government Printing Office, died in a tram car when returning to his home. He was about 30 years of «««• FALL DOWN A HOLD. Auckland, Saturday. Henry Morris Anderson, a waterside worker, a married man, aged 46, died in the hospital from injuries received from falling down the hold of the steamer Mokoia on April 26. At the inquest, a verdict of accidental death, with no blame attachable to anyone, was returned. The jury added a rider which recommended all steamship companies to allow sufficient time to replace parts of hatches and that some person should be responsible for carrying out this work. ' i AN UNEXPLAINED DEATH. Auckland, Saturday. Mrs. Little, one of the two women taken suddenly ill at Takapuna on April 25, died in the hospital at midnight. Deceased and her fister, Mrs. Angus Nicholson, had a sudden seizure after drinking hop beer. The first suggested cause was that of ptomaine poisoning. The inquest on Mrs. Nicholson, who died previously, disposed of this theory, medical testimony attributing the illness in both cases to cerebral haemorrhage. CHILD DROWNED IN TIMARU CREEK The police have received news that the two-year-old son of Mr. N. Shogren, manager of the creamery at Timaru, between New Plymouth and Okato, fell into the factory race in the Timaru creek and was drowned. Medical aid, which was summoned from New Plymouth, proved of no avail.

PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS,

An elderly man named Piller, a resident of Devon street east, was picked up unconscious on the road on Saturday evening by a passing trap. Piller, who was then in a serious condition, was taken into town, and attended to by Dr. Blackley. He was badly cut about the head and one of his legs, while some of his ribs were fractured. Late last night, however, his condition was reported to ' be very satisfactory. As to how the accident occurred, it is presumed that Piller, who was cycling in from Waitara, ran into a trap without lights. The injured man was, it is said, also without a light.