ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10997, 21 June 1901, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

:■•• F. Trevurza was admit_ed into the Ashburton Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, suffering witir a rather severe woucd in the head, the result of a kick xrom a horse.

-_*-__3S ASBOCIXTIOS TEL-Bit-IMS.} DUNEDIN, June 20. At an inquest on John Rhodes, who was killed on the railway at tie cattle yards, a verdict was returned of accidental death, no blaqte being attached to anyone. The men working on the line, of whom deceased was one, vr.re Sheltering from the wind on tba ke side of the -took, while, waiting for the train. T__ev crossed the r line to the platform as the train was approaching! Two got over safely, but the deceased was struck by the cowcatcher,. caught by one of the relief cocks of the cyt-i-idsr, and dragged along.

WAIROA, June 20,

George Bridger Flint-, an old mlfiitary settler, ivas'found dead on, the Marin* Parade. He was on his way home from the doctor. Flint suffered from heart disease.

BLENHEIM, June 20.

Ah elderly man naaned James Townsend Edwards, employed at the Awatere accommodation house, sixteen miles from here, was found dead, in his bed this morning. An inquest will be held to-morrow. AUCKLAND, June 19. Ths adjourned inquest touching the death of Mrs Mary O'Dowd, who died somewhat suddenly on May 17th, was resumed today. Dr. Wilkins, who was examined at length, said that on April 18th the woman, whom he now believed to be Mrs O'Dowd, had come to him. He gave her some medicine, but had never seen-her since. He denied that he had performed any operation upon her. The husband,- who is licensee of the Criterion Hotel, deposed that in his presence the deceased haa told Dr. Lowe that she had been to Dr. Wilkins two days before her death, and that be had psrformed an operation upon her. Mary Tattersall, cook at the Criterion Hotel, stated that when the deceased came home on the Wednesday (two days before her death) she told witness that* she hod been to see Dr. Wilkins. The inquest was adjourned till July Ist in order to allow Mr Reed, counsel for Dr. Wilkins, to proceed with the volunteers to Christohurch. Some of the jury are indignant at the delay. June 20.

A son of Willianu Sellwood, white crossing the Waikato river with two others, fell out of the canoe and disappeared before assistance could be given. The body has not yet been found. A shocking accident occurred at the waterworks excavations at Nihotapu shortly before ton this morning, by which two men named Hugh Fulton. , and William Smytibe ■ have no doubt lost their lives through & f__ll of earth and rocks. The ace, dent took place on No. 12 Contract, at which five men were working—the two deceased and three men, named' Brans, Rosier. a.nd Parker. Evans saw a great fall of earth and rocks bury Fulton and Sinythe, and at once went into Waikomiti to send news to town. The. bodies .have not yet been -recovered, but there is hardly a*ny doubt, that the men have been -killed.. Ful-, ton was contractor for a section, and came from Kaukapaikapaka. Sriiytfte, who was nineteen years of age, came from Nihotapu. All the men available were at once set to work to recover the bodies, which were unearthed about .4 p.m.. under about 200 tons of debris, life, of course, being extinct. Fulton was a married man, with seven <_h_ld_*en.

WESTPORT. June 20.

A serious accident happened this afternoon at the Henly street railway crossing. An expressman named W. Green was crossing tihe line with an express, and did not notice the engine approaching owing to his view of the fine being Mocked by the -ailwav workshops. A collision occurred, with the result that the express was smashed to pkceeT and the boree injured, and Green was thrown out and sustained very severe injuries, the precise nature of which are not yet ascertained. Green is am old West Coaster.

Two old West Coasters died to-dav—H, Curtis, aged eighty-three, and W. Mailer.