ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10095, 22 July 1898, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THROWN FROM THE EXPRESS. I (_£-__ ASSOCIATION TEL-OB AM.) OAMARU, July 21. Mr J. C. Miller, stook and rabbit inspector here, was thrown from the express train to-day as he was stepping from one carriage to another. He was struck by the parapet of the Maheno bridge, and had a miraculous escape from being killed. His leg and arm aud shoulder were broken, and he was otherwise injured, especiaUy about the head. He was lying on the sleepers above the river for about twenty minutes before he was rescued. The doctors are hopeful of pulling him through. (PRBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 21. In a football match to-day, Arthur Julian, a light* weight jockey, had his leg fractured. WELLINGTON,'JuIy 21. An old man named C. Sullivan, who was arrested last night for drunkenness, was j found dead this morning in the cells at the I police station. The supposed cause of death was heart disease, accelerated by excessive drinking. DUNEDIN, July 21. John Kenyon was killed at Blue Spur by his horses bolting and overturning his trap down a sideling seventy feet. He leaves a j widow, but no family. Mr Owen, a traveller for Bing, Harris and Co., had a marvellous escape. When the tug was off the Heads, and a boat was being lowered to put the pilot on board the Firth of Lome, one of the lines became entangled and the boat filled with | water, a heavy sea running there. Unfortunately the sponson of the tug struck the carpenter, J. Page, who was severely crushed. He was seen by Dr. Guthrie, who found that though Page was much hurt, no bones were broken. A boy named Robert Ellis, residing in Waltham road, was playing outside the Waltham school yesterday afternoon,, when he tripped and fell, breaking his thigh. He was taken to the hospifc. 1. A report reached Ashburton yesterday that Air J. McKeague had met with a serious accident while crossing the Upper Rangitata traffic bridge. On board the Rosamond, on Wednesday night, a sling* of timber, the last to be -discharged, fell on a man named William Loader, and injured hia head* Dr. Pairman, who attended him, pronounced his injuries to be not serious. While Mr Restall, of Lincoln, and his wife and child were driving home last night, they were run into by a horse and cart driven by Nicholas Columbus, a fish hawker, on the Park road between the Hospital and the Riccarton Hotel. Both vehicles were capsized and the occupants thrown out, but fortunately none were hurt. The shafts of Mr Restall's trap were broken. After the occurrence a telephone message was sent to the police station, and Constable Hill, who was on duty on that beat, went out and arrested Columbus on a charge of drunkenness while in charge of a horse and cart.