ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 210, 24 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CONSTABLE'S SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph—l'ress Association. Carterton, Thursday. Constable Carmody, aged 35 years, in charge of the Carterton police station, died this morning, lie leaves a wife and four children, the eldest being live years old and the youngest four months. Death was due to the breaking of a bloodvessel on the lungs.

DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. Hastings, Thursday. Robert Taylor, aged 59, a resident of West Clive, has died under chloroform. An anaesthetic had been andministered, and an operation was about to be performed for peritonitis, when the patient collapsed and expired. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to peritonitis following on perforation of the gail bladder.

WHARF LABORERS IX-IfRHD. Aitekland, T h u rsday. Charles Clyne and .Joseph llawes, waterside workers, were engaged in discharging the cargo steamer Waihora when two bales of kapoc, weighing about 701b each, fell from 'tween decks to the lower hold, striking both men. Hawcs was rendered unconscious, but soon recovered. Clyne was badly injured in the back, and was removed to the hospital.

A DROWNING ACCIDENT. Further details of the drowning tragedy in the Wailara river show that many attempts were made to save young Murtagh's life, but the rescuers were not skilled in live-saving methods, and were not strong swimmers. It appears that a party of young men were on the bank of the AVaitara river, near Mangaopa. Suminerhaj's was in swimming, and had only been in the water a few minutes when Murtagh asked to be placed in a canoe, close by. The canoe was only a 15ft. one, and Murtagh sat at one end and placed his legs over the side. Slipping, he fell into the water, ami in endeavoring to clamber into the craft lie upset it. Summerhays saw that the boy was in danger, and went to the rescue. Murtagh clutched him wildly, and both went down, the water being very deep at this spot. A boy who was on the bank states that Summerhays lifted the lad halt out of the water, while he himself was still under the water. The effort was too much for Summerhays. and he had hardly enough strength left to reach the bank, being helped ashore by Anselm Flynn. In the meantime, Walter Buchanan dived in and swam out to the boy. He < v.as not a good swimmer, and was soon in difficulties. Murtagh clutched , him round the neck, and he went under. Buchanan was quite unequal to the task of saving the boy; and was forced to desist ill his efforts.—Stratford Evenine ' Post. K ]