ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL PALL. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; ■, ' Dunedin, Tliuradjay/ George Lindsay, a blacksmith, wht>' {"§ wns employed by Die ililburn Cement Co., and who was injured •IjyjL' ■.'•■Jj fall from a Judder nt the compejijh' works, died at the hospital yoßtanj|mjry§l from eonuussion of the brain, never ]nu>■ing regained consciousness. < r DEATH FROM A FALL. " J "Wellington, ■William Clancy, a member pf-tlie crMr* : -a ' of the barque Titania. coal linden from,'*| Newcastle, who was injured •<»•• Al'il King's Wharf on Monday, diod in .(n hospital this afternoon. • THROWN FROM A WAGOSf. Auckland, Last Nigktrf A man named Wjittam, a ployed at Ohinewai, was tafiff uncoft. j \S scions on the roadside, having lwi*/3 thrown out of a wagon. .Wattam ' : l3| tained a fractured collar-bono UndV,/! bruises on the head, and is' suffering'*) from concussion. His condition *SB garded as serious. '' i-_ jjjjjj FATAL FALL FROM A LADDER, Dunedin, Last Night. At the inque3t on George Lindi*y,'!jSl who died yesterday as a result of i»-®§ juries received from falling from a lad- : dor at the MilbuTn Lime and Works, medical evidence showed the cause of death was laceration and i "j softening of the brain, caused by- con-

Mission, and a verdict wa3 returned* < eordingly, no blame boing Attached to,anyone. i DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. Christchurcli, bast Night'J A man named Sliaw, aged 24, wlio rived at Hamner Springs from Chrttt>,* church, on the Bth iiist., and wu ing at the Lodge, where employment'* was offered him, lins been mining ihfear] Sunday evening. Ho was Buffering froip. > brain derangement,'supposed to be aJeo- rf holie. Search parties were out on Tu®t-' v day and Wednesday, and tliey were *njra| mented this morning, when the wyjf was found near the waterfall. He apparently been dead two day». FATAL FALL DOWN HOLD.,. HJI Christcliurch, Last An accident, which terminated fewM ly. occurred at Lyttelton this Aftornoo&ff Walter George Steward, a unite ttljlj.! worker, CO years of age, was closing kA hatch, on the Tijinui, when his clipped from under him and lie ulurtftiU into the well of the hold, some 19 hw| 'striking the second deck heavily. Bw| left arm and collar-bone nud screr*ttttj| were broken. The injured man ally sank and died from shock. An