ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BURSTING OF SUf.I'HURTC ACID DliUir. THIRTEEN' MEN BURNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. While waterside workers were handling drums of sulphuric acid on the steamer .Wonowai to-ni^lit, one of the drums burst at the bun;; throwing the aeid in a stream for about twenty feet. Five of the watersidera who wore endeavoring to avoid the fumes slipped to the deck, as did also a number of others who rushed to their assistances As a result thirteen men were lmrned by the acid, eight being now inmates of the hospital, while five were treated as outpatients. The men in the hospital were burned ah-nt the body, five seriously. They include Chief-Oltiecr McLean, of the Mmi-wai, the remainder being waterside workers. McLean is not seriously injured. Tha most seriously injured are Coutts, a single man, and Falkner, who is married. CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR CAR. Auckland, Last Night. A boy named Leonard Toole, aged five, was knocked down by a motor car at Newmarket to-nielit and died almost immediately.