ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EXPLOSION 6F GELICNITE. TWO MEN INJURED. , '.(DY.'.TEUionAWi:—riiiss . ASSboiATioM.) : . ' Walfll, March 18.. William. Young and Alfred Hawos, miners oiigaged "at'.'Hardy's mine, Waiorongomai, havo boen seriously injured by an explosion of gelignite charges. The men had charged thirteen holes,' and'hadvlightod tho fuse of. tho; cut./pr ; .brfealcing-out' hole, .and, had returned .to, fire-the. remaining twelvo holes. After >lightingeleven of' tho fuses Young was delayed in readjusting tho fuse attached to tho hole at the bhek. His companion sang o'utr'a'warning not to stiiy... Young.immediately; turned to'como away when, the first "shot ; wont off, ,tho,'f6rce;,of. which .knocked both men down'.: /Hawes -managed to get up and run, - but Young'was ovidently'-uhable to. move; Presently the remaining shots exploded ' in /quick .'succession.and. Young. meanwhile lying on'tho floor of the drive received .their, full,' force; ■* How-' lie, escaped instant death is a miracle. -Both, men, wero ; carricd. in- to Te Aroha,- whence-they were taken by, train! 'to ' Waihi,' and'.admitted to . tho local .hospital/' ,Young is suffering from compound fractures of the arm and» leg, and .severe outs on the head and body, and his condition-is critical. Hawes received a fractured' skull and/injuries to the body. ,

A FATAL CAPSIZE. "< • ■ V/alroa, March 18. An'accident. occurred at Turiroa yesterday, a loaded .. dray capsizing on the driver, Thomas. Dillon. His son, in trying to extri--1 bate his' father,.', from, under tho dray, had one of; his thighs .broken, and was sent to tlie hospital.,,' Dillon was also , sent-to the hospital,. whero ho died at 1.30 to-day. • Harold Pinnock, twenty-four years of age, living at. Clifton .Torrace, ■ was struck on the head by a-, pieeo of timber while working' at. Taylor's ; building, .Courtenay Place, yos-terday.jTho-timber, which fell from a height 6f : about, thirty: feet- above Pinnock', -..struck tho latter, with; considerable; force, and inflicted'a, severe scalp wound! Pinnock was removed. the Hospital. - . George. Reid, a married man about '> 39 years . of, age, residing at Walter Street, while working oil/a brick building opposito tho Newtown- School yesterday, accidentally stepped into ,the stair-well oil tho second story,; and'fell to the ground, a'distaiico of about fifteen feet. Reid, who is a. plumber by - trade, sustained, a severe injury to his;back;v. Ho was;convcyed to ,tho Ho-spital, and last night-was reported to be in a bad -way..'l /IV, ■ , , . ■