ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS.

(by TEr.EGRAPn—rnEss association.) A TERRIBLE, FATALITY. . ' MAX FALLS INTO A BOILING POOL. - Rotorua, January 21. _ Rodney Graham, aged 28, foil into a hoil- ' ipg pool at Ohinomntii last, night, about 11 o'clock. His cries for help wore heard by ' Natives, but) in consequent!) of the steam, they wero unable- to locato his for some time.: Ho .was eventually' rescuod'. The man was then breathing. A doctor was sent for, but Graham expired n fenminutes after, death: being' tho,/result:-of' , shock. Grnhan) arrived here on Saturday, last from Opotiki. whcro.ho.had been working. Ho had told an acniiairitarice that'lip came from' Australia, :and thot his parents reside there. Deceased 1 had bcqii; seen by.'the , Natives of Ohiijemutu during the day.... He, was then under the influence of drink. WRIST NEARLY. SEVERED.' : . Nelson, January 21,; Mr. Ernest Coppnll, prther in. the' Sash ind Door Factory nt Taliaka, was attempting to adjust the nut of a band-saw to-day, • rhon the spanner slipped. His right wrist, struck the saw, and was .'nearly severed.' . .It , is hoped the hand will be saved, but it will bo disabled for eight months. Mr. Richard Trevett, ono of the sub-coil-tractors for the plastering work i)v iouncction with Messrs. 'Irvine, and Stevenson's new premises in Brandon Street, had a marvellous ;scapo from serious accident morning. A scaffold on which he was standing became unstable, through a Sin. beam snapping, and ho was precipitated to tho ground,. r distnnco of about forty feet. .Attlie tiiiio Mr. Trevett was in tho act of. handing 'up Jotno nails to n workman. . Dr. Henry, who ras summoned, found that' Mr. Trevett had sustained injury to two of his ribs, in a'ddi- . tion to being badly bruised and shaken; Mr. Trevett was 'removed to, his residence'.'in; Tennyson Street. In all probability he will bo able to get about again in a few days. Dr. Moore, of Napier, was thrown out of his motor car on Sunday last and had one of his ribs broken. Ho also sustained an-in-jury to one of his shoulders, and received several bruises. Tho motor car, which was upset, was badly damaged. , Shortly after o o'clock yesterday afternoon, » middle-aged man named Moir, u-fiilocrossing Jourtenay Place, was knocked over by a Season n tramcar. Though tho brakes wero applied, and tho ear was brought smartly to a standstill, tho man was rendered unconicious; but, it is believed, suffered nothing <vorse than a severe shaking. •'