ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LITTLE GXBI< DBOWHTED. IN* A DRAINAGE BOX. A little girl, Ann Chalmers Steven, aged 17 months, the daughter of (Robert Steven, bootmaker, of Avondale, was found at four o'clock on Saturday afterI noon lying face downwards in a concrete box, which received the drainage ; from a cowbail in the back yard, where i she ■was playing, and which at the time i contained about four or five inches of j water. The child was unconscious at I the time. She > attended by Mr. J Allerly, a chemist, until Dr. Rossiter i arrived. The child regained consciousj ness, and seemed all right when visited 'at 11.30 on Saturday night. She died lat one o'clock next morning. I An inquest was held' this morning j before the City Coroner (Mr. T. Gresham). when death was found to be due to bronchial pneumonia, due to the water inhaled. A GUNSHOT WOUND. A youth named Arthur Currey waa admitted to tho hospital last evening suffering from a gunshot wound in the side. Currey, whose parents reside in Mannkau-road, Parnell, was out at Warkworth, shooting,' on Saturday, when the {rtm he was carrying went off. j His condition is not thought to be serii ous. A NARROW ESCAPE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PAEROA, this day. A man named K. Moore had a narrow ' escape from being killed on the Paeroa ' railway station on Saturday evening as j the Thames train was leaving the sta- ] tion. -Moore attempted to board it while \ in motion, and fell •between the carriage < and the guard's van. By some means his ! fall was broken, and he was caught •between the step of the van and the ] edge of the platform, in wii'Ji position j he was carried arbout twenty yards, I'-nd thrown clear of the train. He sustained j severe injuries to bis back, and was j very 'badly shaken. TE KTTITI CCrDEHT. (By Telegraph.Own Correspondent.) TE KUTTT, this day. A young man named Arthur Shields, employed by Messrs Hattaway and JTitzpatrick, when cutting chaff at Hangatiki met with a painful accident on Saturday. Shields, who went to regulate part of the cutter, put the belt on a loose pulley, and -while he was fixing blades up the belt worked on to the pulley and started the machine. All the sinews on the back of his left hand were severed, and the second finger was almost taken off, while the rest of his fingers j were "badly injured. The patient was \ removed to the Hamilton hospital. There ! is every probability that he will lose two i or three fingers, and that the hand will be rendered powerless. BU SHi'-EXIiKR KTTXKD. ——— — (By Telegraph. Press Association.) : WAX rAKUI, Sunday. A married man named Walter Huycock. residing in Wanganui East, was) killed while bushfelling at Waiwera. , near Taumarunui, on Saturday. I trmDER A CHAITC U GISBORNE, Sunday, j A man named Tbornhill Nicholas was j driving a chaficutter at Manutuke on j Friday night, when his horse shied. ' Nicholas got under the machine, and | was severely injured. He was brought to the Gisborne Hospital, where he died early this morning. FOUND DROWNED. BLENHEIM, this day. The body of John Hickey, an old man who had been missing since May 2nd, was found yesterday in the Opawa river with one leg broken and a slight wound on the bead, and a severe wound in the groin. The police surmise his injuries were caused by the propeller of a boat. It is thought that Hickey went down to the bank for some purpose and slipped into the river. RAILWAY COLUSION AT BLUFF INVERCARGILL, Sunday. A railway accident occurred at Bluff la6t evening, when a passenger train from Invercargill collided with a goods train waiting on a siding about 400 yds. from the Bluff railway station. The accident occurred through some person, as yet undiscovered, placing a stone in the points. The impact was sufficient to throw the fireman, Harry Baxter, violently from the cab of the passenger train engine on to the tender, and he received severe injuries, including a broken nose and cuts on the head. His condition J;o-night was, however, reported to be not very serious.