ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

v FALL FROM A TRAIN. YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (by telegram:.—press association.) Auckland, April 18. A young man named Alfred Henry Co*, head, of Miranda, is now lying in a serious condition at'the Auckland District Hospital, as tho result of- a-fall from a train. Coxhead came, to'Aiicklandin'the early part of this week, Slid had .all his upper row of teeth extracted.. He left bv the, 10 o'clock express yesterday, bound for DrUry, en 'routo for his home. , When the train Was hearing Drury,,Coxheacl left his seat in a carriage, , and walked on to the platform. According to a fellow-passenger, lie appeared to step off. the platform in an attempt to alight from the train. Tinding.it was travelling faster than ho imagined, Tie clutbhed the step, and was dragged along; for about half h chain, when weakness overcame him and he dropped to the ' When picked up lie was unconscious, and it Svais sppiiroilt that ho has sustained serious injuries to the baso of' his skull. He was taken Hp to Drury,. wheheb ho was 'dispatched to Aubkla'n'd-' br: -the - first-train. * -Inquiries at tllb hbspits ! , to-day elicited that no is still unoonscioui ' 1 and m a very Serious condition. ' CAUGHT IN A OALE. . THREE MEN SUPPOSED TO BE . DROWNED. ' ■ InvfercargiH, Aprii :19. . Three men—Charley Brown, Geotge'Sauii-, dfers, iintl . "Biiiijo" Jones—went fishing m » an oil launch from Riveftou on Friday riibrnirig, and it is fe&red they are drowned. Shortly after ; noon ; a gale, fierce though'/' . Mibrt-lived,''sprang ,'iip. /The men' did hot. : return, and search parties went 'out on-Sit-urday. The boat was ftiund washed ashore l on Rivorton Beach. From tho nature-'of tho.hiovhble articles: found in tho:'lanlich, it is.' • considered iinprobablo that she /lrad capsi'zed,,'but 'simply siva'mpod. -Inquiries -along ;, the coast, from Bluff to Colac, and on Centra and Stewart Islands -ha<'o failed so far tfl" reveal traces-of the men. : •-■■■. TRAIN RUNS INTO A JIGGER, TWO MEN BADLY-INJURED, ■v -' ' , Auckland, ■ April 18. 1 On Thursday, liiglit asi.tlie.'leto , train'to Thames was approaching Matatqkb/a'serious accident happened. , Two. of the -railway _ siir- ■: facomen who were pulling along on a jigger .evidently did 'hot notice -the train fbllqwing, ;with tho.'result, that "they were run'into by tlio train.'' As sbori as -thin driver' salv tho ha -pulled' ,up and' found the men '. ■.wore ■. badlv ■■■ injured.- .'T3ioy wero taken on board;the -train.;incl;tlien':to the Thames Hos- . pital. The -jigger on which tho men wcw rid«ing was-smashed to splinter's. _/; - THE BLENHEIM MYSTERY. . Blenheim, April 18.' ,Mr. Scott'Harding, who was mysteriously, • injured m.Grovo Road on Wednesday night, died at' the hospital' 'at'l:3o after- •' Moon,' liever;-having , regained : cbns'ciousrie*s3.\/ His head was. frightfully, smashed,. arid; it in . thought to hfe.uiili'kely mat the 'wounds 'were • , thir te'siilt of a fall from 1 ahorse, hvat .first 1 Hardiiigi' -Who ;of lato -j'e'arS'.'hadbeen .'freqliehtl.y. •iiltoxicate'fl, was known tp :)iayo;.imbibed excessively on the 'everiin'g-'of the',' occiirrehce, alid is said to ;ha Vb. ,'drawn.' mono'}' /'fro'in - the 'bank during Tho ; police/a'ro reticent: -A detective ;'is" rtrialsing ' inquiries.,-,A.ii-lhquest'Wa-s tofhavs been held' this morning,' 'hilt; was' adjourned till Tuesday,- m order'to get sombthmg definite. ' -INQUEST AT ' \ Cisborne,.Apnl 18: . At an inquest touchihg the death ef'Catherine llollier, ■ Avlio ; died whilo under chloroform, tho -verdict'.was „that no blame was -•'attachable "to 'aiiyoite." Dr. Collihs iShid in - his opinion the cause of death Was inhibition of tho ihe'art's adtibn,'aScelcfriited-by her nervous conditibn, Vafche'r th&H the tu'ia&sthetie. Tho coroner said it appeared : to be one of those caees "where death did occur despite all reasonable and proper - precautions havm? been takeji. ■ ■ " CHILD IITIOM BURNS. Talhape, April 18. A three-year-old child of Mrs. Woolnougli, postriiist'ress of Torero, died from injuries sustained through being'burnt by fire in he' mother's absence. : DUtfFDIN RAILWAY ? Duhedsfi, April 18. t .-At.nn. inquest ■poncenung. tho death-of Driver J.' Logic, the chief witness said that the. deceased w^s'crossing'from one carriage '•: to'-"*iui6th6rj•.'when-.'-slipped,'and..JeU be- ' tween them. had had no drink wlia'teve'r.; .. A /verdict 'of idc'idental death ' was returned;. .' ' - * .. . SUDDEN DEATH. ' " _ • . Auckland, April 18. ■ 'An Imperial, pensioner named Thomas Brisj tow clied suddenly while swieping his. lied- ' : room.' v;/ '■ - HORSE BACKS OVER A WHARF. - (BY TELEGEAPH.—^SPECIAL.CORBESPOXDECT.)-'. ■ Auckland, April 19. ;. -A .rather sensational accident Ocourred on the Onelmnga wharf early Oil Sa;tiirday -morn* ; ing,. which dembhstrates the absolute, hecos- r . sity for korbing-oh;wharves. Thb steamer Weka . was berthed; at Vthe; extWirio : efid or thej,tco, and the passage,was almost entirely i;; .blocked,.by; : railp'a>'.trucks.t .Having safely threaded 'a way thrbiigh the 'stsii'ding; trucks, one of .Messrs: ■ Som'mers and-; Tieniey's carters managed to . get .alongside/tho iVeka and transfer his, load.; . Having discharged, the driver endeavoured to lhakc 'rdbAi for another cart, and for a ; rnomoiit left his horse's head for the purpose of removing ti piece of. iron. The horse evidently, took a step backwards, itnd tho driver loosed up in time to see , tho cart disappearing over the edge of the wharf. Ho'inAdo a jump for the horse's head, and continued to liang on, but the weight of tho cart, precluded all chance of.'the horse retaining its footing, and 'the animal was simply dragged over the edge,; falling a distance/; of about 13 feet into a depth of 15 foot of watei'. ' Unfortunately, tile Vehicle did riot float, and the lio'rse'was dragged :dbwn underneath the surface and drowned." The cart i was 'recovered: after some considerable .'trouble, _ 1 ' while the body of the horse, n valuable one,. fraMva'shcd ashore .with tho tide.:'/ '• , Mrs. .Eliza Bowelter. of No. .71 Bidwell Street, slipped and broke, her ankle early oil Saturday evening. She is being treated at tho Hospital, ■ ■ .- Whilst handling wool on the wharf on Saturday - aftenioon,.'.Patrick Findlay, who resides at South Avenue, , off Hopper Street, . sustained cpncussion of tho spine owing to a ba]e~faliing/upon hirii. * The' unfortunate man ias removed to tlie-hospital. ■' ./ 1 .. "