ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE MISSING ■ MOUNT COOK; PORTER. ''"According to', tho. latest advices,received by tho ;'tho;'-,.policij' havo abandoned: "tli&. endeavour. io^fiiid'traces'-'of Ge.orgo;: Napier,' ..tho'.-- mij^ne::,Mount '.'.Cook .porter; but. tho guides-a'rp. .; : SUDDEN • DEATH- "QE: \\ ENGINE ■■DRIVER. ; ' (BY. TELEGKAI'H—PIIESB vASSOCIATION.) > ... Chrictchurch, January: 10.' ,Mr. George, E.. Stirling, ...an engine-driver, died'suddenly at 'Bennetts., last ,mght. . Mr. Stirling was on -the train'; service., between Bennetts and Kaiapoi, on-duty, yesterday j-apparently in good health and 'spirits. About midnight l ho had' a' seizure,. and although everything possible was '.dono for'tho nian%o expired; about'.an. hour.afterwards.. , . ' FOUxND'DEAD; IN BED. ; .Chrlstcliurch, January 10. ■ Ellen Rose. Borry, seven- year's,,of, ago, wh'oso mother resides at Killinchy, found dead in her bed this.morning 'at,the residence of her sister, Mrs. Morris, ..Bass :'Street.' Woolston. . Qur Levin . correspondent".' writes ; that ' a yWrPWful'-accidcnt'- occurred '.yesterday to' a young: man named.' Charles'.Crighton, :whd' is> employed-by. Mr. P. Bartholomew, at. his. sawmill. . It appears that Crighton was trucking logis into the mill, ahd : Wheh'applying tho to some of tho front trucks, he slipped •and fell, and was run : over'bj;'tho trucks that followed. Tlio accident occurred some way from the mill, and the injured maiuhad to struggle back-..to'ask .his friends to''get a doctor: ..Hc was soon-attended by Dr. Mackenzie, who found that his. arm*, was baldly cnished, and iqost of the flesh was .stripped off it. "Dr."Mackenzie"ordered the 'mail's removal to theOtailu Hospital; and it -is Very doubtful-whether-.lie will not havo to havo tlia arm amputated. '~ . '..., ... '■ - . •. t

A, draper's assistant,. George Hornig,- sixteen'.years of''ago, residing, at tlio corner of Lloyd ana Pirie Streets, met' with' an' accident when cycling , along Vivian Street.' at 6 o'clock'yestorday evening: It. appears that Hornig • collided ' with the. step . '•ol Or; M'Lean's gig,. and, fracture of one of his legs.just above the ankle.