ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 299, 10 May 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Mrs. Jane Ilardie, residing in Glen road, Mornington, died suddenly this afternoon. She had been attended by a doctor-- for the last five or six years. Indications go to show that death was the result of hemorrhage of the brain. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Dunedin, Last Night. While working at the north end of the Chain Hills tunnel, putting in gelignite plugs, one of the employees named Harry Smith received such injuries as proved almost instantly fatal. It appears that Smith was putting in the plugs, and another employee, named Charles Gardiner, was pushing them home, when from some unaccountable reason a premature explosion took place, Smith receiving • the full force of the charge in his face. Gardiner was knocked about a bit in the arms and breast, while two others, named Barker and J. Hutchi- ' 6on, received minor injuries. The express from the solith was stopped, and all the men were brought into Dunedin. Gardiner is now 'lying in the hospital, but it is not thought that his injuries are very serious. Baker and Hutchison, after being attended to, were able to go home. Smith was a single man, and resided with his mother at Rockyside, Caversham. He was about 32 or 33 years' old. ..■■,■ . , A PRISONER DROWNED. Invercargill, Last Night. A prisoner named Frank Peterson, aged .about twenty-five, was drowned in the Estuary this afternoon. He was working on a bridge on-the.estuary, and in some unaccountable way fell into the water and was drowned in. a few minutes. The work was considered quite safe, and operations had been carried on there for over two years without an accident. Peterson was brought from the North Island, and was serving a sentence of three years. The body has not yet been recovered.