Accidents & Fatalities.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 104, 5 February 1901, Page 3

Accidents & Fatalities.

Christchurch, February 3r J

A sad accident occurred on the estuary at New Brighton On Saturday. Mr B. Bell (ex -Mayor of St Albans, with a married and a single son and a grandson, were sailing on the estuary, when a puff of wind capsized the boat. The yoaugest son, Leonard, first got his nephew ashore, and then his father, but Samuel, the father of the boy, was exhausted, and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered.

A marvellous escape from a serious accident occurred at North Bridge, yesterday. Mr W. Hollamby, son of the contractor, was excavating a trench to put in a mud-sill, when about six feet down a fall occurred. He managed to jump on to a piece of the earth, when another falipccurred and buried, him to the necki Two other men in the trench managed to escape from the ends. It took cfive men a quarter of an hour to estrioate Mr Hollamby, who was then found to be suffering nothing more serious than severe bruises. Hid he been in a stooping position or had not jumped on to the first fall, he would have been instantly killed. The bulk of the available tools were buried in the trench, making the work of extrication slower.

A young man named Brown, employed by Mr Davis, of Bedcliff, was accidentally shot in the leg last evening. Mr Davis was shooting at a hawk, and Brown, -who was standing about thirty yards away, received the charge in his log. He was brought into town, attended by Dr Barclay, and sent to the Hospital. On Saturday afternoon a boy-named James Fitzgerald slipped on the asphalt in town, and| broke his arm.