ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8650, 27 November 1893, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Yesterday afternoon some seven firemen belonging to the direct liner Coptic at* tempted a sail iv one of the steamers boats. Thou* troubles began as soon as they hoisted the sail, us they tirab ran iuto the wharf aud then iuto one of the small trai.-rs lying near the low level breastwork. Iv the second collision tho boat's uiatst gob foul of the cutter's nggiog t»nd she was very nearly capsized. A fresh North-castor w.as blowing, and Being how badly Uie boat, was being hanuled mure .than one person watched her as she went out of the harbour. Just aftor passing through the moles she was allowed to jibe, aud she immediately turned over. The ularm was at once given, and the a.c. Johu Auderßon aud launch Canterbury, which were leaving foe Governor's Buy, were soon inakiug for the spot. Iv the meantime, however, a boat cruising in the harbour, belonging to the steamer Omapere, had hastened out and picked up the crew, all of whom could swim with the exception of one, who clung to the overturned boat. The men were lauded at the ocean steamers' wlvtrf, having buffered uo thing more than a ducking and a bit of a scare. The boat was picked up by the Johx Anderson. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLKOBAMS.) AUCKLAND, November 26.. A man, whose name is unknown, fell off the up Waikato train, near Pukekohe, when ib was rounding a curve. Ho was brought to Auckland Hospital, suffering from concussion of the brain. It is supposed ho comes from Coromandel. November 26. One of the crew of tho steamer Coromandel has, thi» afternoon, identified at the Hospital the man as Johu Swaney, a miner, of Coromandel. He wua on his way from Te Aroha to Coromandel. He still lies in a state of unconsciousness. C INVEROARGILL, November 26. '■-■ John Hiuchey, a farmer, of Fern hill, Benmore, was killed at luveroargiil station yesterday, being run over by a train-by which he intended to travel home. There ia a complete conflict of evidence as to how the affair occurred. Some say that Hiuchey Was ou board of the train and fell oif as it started, but a man who was on the platform adjoining that from which Hiuchey fell says that he arrived late witb two awkward parcels, that he ran a f«W yard's alongside the train making as if to throw the parcels aboard, then changed his intention, tucked tho parcels under his right arm and grasped the standard with his left hand, was twisted off his feet and fell on tbe rail between the carriages. Hiuchey, who was an elderly heavy man; was fearfully mangled, and death wm instantaueous.