ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY A COW.

CHRISTCHUiRCH, Last Night. Edward Savill, a man 01 years of age, who was butted by a cow at Styx on Friday evening, and knock- j ed over, died yesterday morning. The medical evidence at the inquest to-day showed that Savill's spine [ was dislocated. _ INQUEST ON NORMA PHILLIPS. GISBORNE, Last Night. An inquest was held on Saturday on tlie body of the little' girl Norma, Ellen Phillips, who fell off the train, at Te Karaka on Friday night, and was almost decapitated. In finding that the deceased child met its death by the wheels of the train f passing over its head, the jury added a rider that the jerking motion in the .starting of the train was cohrtributory to the fatality, and they strongly suggested that some menas should be'taken to minimise the danger. FOUND DROWNED. NAPIER, Last Night. The body of a man, apparency 70 yieiars of age, was found floating in the harbour near Glasgow Wharf at 3 o'clock this,, afternoon. The body has not yet been identified. SEVERE BURNING ACCIDENT, j A® the result of a burning acoidr ent,.Mrs Alice Burnett, wife of Mr T. Burnet, a blacksmith, residing in Newton Road, Auckland, was admitted to the hospital on Thursday inorning, where she now. lies in, a critical condition. On the previous evening Mrs Buraett fell asleep while sitting in front of the fire. She wake'later to find that her clothes had caught on fire, and rushed into the street enveloped in a m/assi of flames. Seeing the woman'is sad plight a neighbour, Mr E. Brace, ran out with a, blanket, with whkth he succeeded in smothering the flames. As a result o$L the accident Mrs Bumett, who is only 27 years of age, was badly burned from the waist ckwiiwards, ..At .the time.of the accident the :'<ttily other '.occupy ants of "the'house Avere Mrs' Burnett's three dhiMrein, -her husband being out. Inquiries made at the hospital showed that tlie suiferer had rallied a little, although the shook'to her system, was very severe. -.■...'■■