ACCIDENTS. AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS. AND FATALITIES.

.;'i- >■■■ ■■ { ;' SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.; , r ' A MAN'S THIGH, BROKEN. ;A' shocking accident: occurred on ! tho sit ofi 'tho 1 ' new • electric'flight ';power-ho\is9 'ii Mercer' Street'. at'4.ls p.m: yesterday,; resull ing in' a' labonrer nanied Benjamin -Proud ' residing; at . No. 4 Pino ■. having Jii .thigh. ..brbken:: and- sustaining 'other,' kriou injuries.:- With' others Proud /was / assistin •in the-shifting:'of: ; i :a i i 'iugoy'framb;.that.-:;wa being ised/.for • driving piles', tor !, th&f'.noi The; men,'. seeing .on side; : biit' Hhe excitement; of; th moment, straightsout;: .with.'.'the;; resul that thej-f bn.'j;tep:io£ hini felling ihimi.tolith'eigroundi'i/It. ' onoo that $ip?.haijisustamed- sori6tts-'injuries arid,"in; response to a telephone:message,Di Hisjop arrived" promptly' on 'the ''scene,' : ';hi examination' revealing,; thatthe man, 1 , wh had , notlost consciousness, -.-hadsustained!' fracture .'■• of. ithigh? just' above. ; th a'iserdre'scalfiwound. '.Tho dm bulan-co" was -sununoned; vand ';tlie Mmjiire* man-^Msi- ! ppnv#ed "to thp, hcspital, and,.;o: inquiry last' night, 'wp;wqre': informed>that; h was not in \any. , 'oxtremo,':dahg«rV';andS''iya doing> as well as■'could| be expected ■under th. 'painful'olr'cumstances. .•' / •■■-:'.' , ■ Proud r?as an oinploj'oo'of Messrs. Mnc and Nicholson,' who. aro . contractors for.'.th ereetion'of. tho new municipal; lighting, '.house;- '■■ '-. '••"■ ■~ ':.' , DEATH.,. '! ' («V. TELEGKAI'H—FEEtiS ASSOCIATION.). ' ' ■. , ' : ' CisborKe,, April.. 10. ; As Mr. W. Ciirrio, hotelkeepor at .Muriwai •was proceeding, homo from a,stock salo yet terday afternoon, he.collapsed and layonth floor of.tho buggy, rosting on the' knees of ' 'gentleman who- ;.was driving,; who' though .tliat ho had'simply faintodi- On arrival horn an hour later it was found that he was dead and a, medical man, on being, summoned, pr< nounced that death had [occurred some tim previously, probably when the collapse too place, : Deceased was an-old identity, ; foi mefly connected with the Mounted-Police. , Dunedln, April 10. ' James Burnett, a widov.-cr,' aged, soventy ■five ■years, . was , found dead in., bod ;at'i-'hi .reskJence/'NorthrEast Valley;' ''Deceased, 1 ' wh was- a labourer; had bosn' in failing. liealt! for some time. _ At the inquest a verdict! c doaith from scnilo_ heart failure, /accelerate* by chronic-bronchitis, . FATAL FALL FHOM A TRAIN. Croymouf.!), April 10. ,'• Wm; JVratt,;.farmer,' of- Aliaura, 'fell- ol tho Uscfton train last night, when passin a viaduct;,and was' killed. : " INQUEST. An:moucst was held at the Tcrraco Ga< yeste'nlay' afternoon; by Dr. ,A. . M'Artliui SAL,' ooroncr, into'tho circumstances sui rounding tho death of tho man William Chai ham,', who. died at tbo gaol on Thursda night. A verdict of death' from heart diseas . and oerobral, hemorrhage. was • returned. i' A i man ' named- Janies. Millican was 'at mifcted to' tho - yesterday sufferin from an - injury' caused through gotting hi -baud . caught ■in a. circular; It wa found necessary to amputate the hand.