ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10956, 4 May 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUNG GIRL BURNED TO DEATH:

(SPECIAL TO "THE I'BKSS.") WELLINGTON, .A?;-;- S The circumstances attending the death by burning of the girl Marion Bradl-ey. th.Hc-.n years of age, were inexpressibly pitlrfiv .;; ri sad. She was a daughter of George iiiu.fk-y, of Adelaide road, baker, and was at the :iiaa of the accident, in service at Mrs Ad.-. J... George's residence, Willis street. -Mis George gave deceased instructions al> ; u: cleaning the kitchen stove, and then" k-.t her by herself. Shortly after slic wv.s liter:.".--cd by the girl knocking at the kitoliyn do.-r and crying out she was on tire. Mrs C-Jcorje appears to have lost her presence of liiiiuK and attempted to extinguish the fiam:s villi her hands, which were badly burnt. Distracted by her ill success, she shoutrd to some lodgers in another part of the house, and called on a neighbour to assist her. All the while the victim of the accident was screaming and writhing in flames. H?r mistress thsn, unable to bear the sight any longer, fled from the house, running to her daughter's place, .a residence some two hundred yards away. One of the neighbours. Miss Jane Henderson Wilkinson, attracted by the screams, acted with commendable coolness and promptitude. Hurrying into the house in which 'the child was now left alone, fanning the flames by rushing from one room to another, . Miss Wilkinson "whipped a. rug oIF a couch, and enveloped her in it. A lodger by this time had ai rived in the kitchen, and helped to extinguish the fire in the girl's still smouldering cotton frock. Dr. Faulke was quickly in attendance, and did everything to alleviate the torture and . suffering, but there was never any hope of saving the girl's life, so extensive was the burns. She remained partially conscious till the end. which occurred on Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. The coroner expressed the opinion that Miss Wilkinson had acted with great coolness and good judgment, an opinion which the jury echoed. Mrs George was completely exonerated from blame in the matter. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death by misadventure."

(I'HESS ASSOCIATION , TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, May 3. A voting man named Arthur Hughes, a cyclist, collided with a spring tnip, the shaft going through Ms thigh under the bone. He pulled himself off and was attended to by Dr. Grant. He lost a great deal of blood, but is likely to recover. STRATFORD, May 3. A man named Foster had his hand practically cut off by a sawmill this morning. Hβ has gone to the New Plymouth Hospital.