ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 254, 17 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT.

By Teloyi'!ij>]i—Prosri Association. Wellington, Saturday.

At the iii(|uest on Percy Joseph Calcinai, who (lied from injuries received i in a trap accident on the 7th inst, evidence was given that deceased was : driving a grocer's cart round a corner when the vehicle struck the kerbing or a-fire plug and overturned, Calcinai being pinned underneath. Death wa» due to a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain. AN OLD MAN'S DEATH. Ashburton, Saturday. The body of AVm. Marry, aged 87, who bad wandered from the Old Mcu'g Home on Moudav hist, was found in the Wakanui Creek to-day. PECULIAR MOTOR MISHAP. Invercargill. Last Night. Robert Russell, stock dealer, and Thos. Brown, a farmer at Wright's Bush, had a sensational experience while motoring on Friday night. They bad passed an--other motor-ear. going in the same direction, but its brighter lights made it difficult to see the road properly. Russell missed the turn of the road, near the New River, and drove straight into the fence protecting the. stream. Both men were thrown into the water by the force of the impact. Russell fell' into shallow water ami managed to scramble ashore. He saw Brown, who had apparently been stunned, floating down the stream, and by taking bold of a flax bush and reaching out was able to bring him ashore. Neither was much hurt., but the motor-car was badly damaged. A FALL INTO THE HARBOR. Wellington, Last Night. A Norwegian sailor named James Swanwick. of unknown address, fell off' the Glasgow wharf last night. His cries were heard by the wife of the keeper of the hulk Coromandel, moored alongside the sterner Arawa. She assisted'him to get on the hulk from a girder to which: he was clinging, and he was cared for until the afternoon, when he was removed to the hospital. The man was found to be badly bruised, and it is supposed that he was jammed between the hulk and the steamer. A SHOOTING ACCIDENT. AVellington. Last Night:'. A man named .Tack Bassett, while'out rabbiting at Island Bay. met with a serious accident. He was stooping for si shot at a rabbit when the trigger of his . gun caught in some shrubbery and the. charge exploded. The shot tore all the . muscle and flesh from his tipper arm, but missed the bone. He was removed to the hospital, where he now lies, very weak from loss of Wood. i ■