ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10481, 20 October 1899, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

_ A MAN'S HAND TORN OFF. (PRESS ASSOCIATION T___GB___) * W___UNGTpN, October 19. ' , A seaman n_med John Walker met with J i serious accident on board the Tutanek", ; off Cape CampbeX, -has _ft_r__on. While the crew were hoisting a surf boat aboard, .-* the hawser, _n winding round a barrel of the winch, took Walker's right h__d with it, wiifii the result that' the hand aad arm were torn off below the elbow. The Tu-t-nek-i came on to Wellington, and Walter, waa removed to the HospiitaL The clothes, in which the man found , irowned at Governor's Bay on Sunday was iressed, have been identified as those of a nan named John Lat_m_r_ aged forty, * native of 'Belfast, Ireland, who, up till two ,'clock on Thursday last, resided with Mr John Rickerby, at HalswelL At the tune mentioned he deft with the expressed n> tentio-. of going to the hospital. He nao been in ill-health for some time, and vofl iSso menltaily affected. He was a _mg» man, a _u_ographic printer by trade, aaa had no known friends in the colony. While G. Haylock, jun., was at worlc b-ilding the new wing to the Akaroa boat house, the scaffolding broke, and he fell and broke his thigh. He was taken to tihe Hospital arid -ttecded to.