ACCIDENTS AND FATALITES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 729, 31 January 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITES.

.'/■:■■' ,FALL DOWN: A'; LIFT WELL; V ;'.; . ..'MAN . SERIOUSLY: INJURED: ■■; X IBy; Telegraph.—PressAssociation.) }' : '<'■ '.vV'othrisicHurcn,"January SO;:, ,•'.- About 4.30 this afternoon a serious ac-' cident occurred ;at tho United ■ Service Hotel by which,a. young married man named - Frederick Seinb," employed as engineer ,and electrician, at','the hotel/sus- : :tamed'..-grave : injuries. The affair"'occurred, in:the. servants'. portion .of the hotel where; there'is :an electrical lift for.-. tho. convoyanco of." goods' from • the v basement to the kitchen- : which is situ-: ated on the:fourth-story.',' Scmb was' on 'the_ uppermost' flat, talking. to' his. wife at.the .time,"and requiring. 'to use: the lift which -was then in the' basement he_ opened. the collapsible door, and put hife arm .round', to-pull/the' wire iropo ; which communicates .with' the-machinery. dnving,the lift for'the purposo'of. bringing the lift up.' By. some mischance his foot-slipped on tho. edge', of: the ooen' lift-well and the unfortunate iuan was hurled.dqwn the.shaffa distance of fully hfty feet, and fell on,to- the heavy:tim,ber. andiron framing, on top.: of the lift One.-or-tho. men attending to the boiler heard the crash and■': hurried . to', ascer, tain what had happened. ; In the meantime rushed downstairs. By the time'assistance was .'at' hand Semb, who .was bleeding profusely'' -from the.headland ■ apparently ,in an '.unconscious condition, was just falling from the framing.on to the ■ floor, of .the lift.' He was' taken' down■ - and■,'sent,'• to.• the'.hospital in! the, ambulance., ..: y .;/.■; :,::,,

V, MISHAP/ON ■'' Tin;.',''• "; " 'i n vercargillj : January;3oi' ! , hile engaged; removing the hatches of the Kaikoura. at. the. Bluff :.'on . Friday, night, a man named. Albert Edward Tall (43 years of-age) suffered a serious mishap, by wJiich .both .'his legs; were- frac-tu™-,'.A beam swin ?s close to the deck,' and this,; beam unexpectedly, moved. Tall tell down- and'crushed both his legs, each limb sustaining a compound fracture. The unfortunate man was brought to tho'hospital/by. the first, train on' Saturday morning, and it is understood that he has to undergo an.operation. /Tall has been particularly unfortunate, and- 1 had- not long_ since. resumed work after a, nasty acoident sustained on the chute 'in' shipping frozen meat. Recently his brother was killed by, a somewhat-similar"acci-dent. V,' "-■- , ■ - '■:.

,;■;';' SEVERE INJURrES.- ','^- : ; : - , , r - ; -Dunedin,' January-80, :' ■ ; John MTherson, an elderly man, residing., at Port Chalmers,, sustained severe injuries on Friday, night. A.few minutes after midnight,' his son heard him mount the .steps, leading-to the house, and then it sounded as ■ though :he stumbled and fell;. He rolled down a steep;bank, atthe bottom of which he fell over a: concrete wall, with a drop of ,sft.to : the : footpath.' An; examination ■ showed that the base of the skull was fractured. /• MTPhersonhad been in the Employ of the - Union : Company'for many years as a shipwright and blockmaker.v .

: : .', FROM : A '.. HORSE.';.-. • \ ;■:'■ Auckland, January' 29. ■ _ Horace Launcelot Daley; aged 10, was thrown from a horse at Mongonui and had his skull fractured.-. He died twenty minutes later. .'■ '' '■'■: --.■; ■■■-■■ . .• . '. ' .. '..- ■-;;■'•:■'■. .'.■'.'■.■ STRUCK BT. A BEAM. \ tin.., ' ■■,-;■■' ■ Bluff > January 29. ' .While: working on the steamer. Kaikoura last night, a man named Alfred tall received a compound fracture of both legs by a boam. striking him. ; ' He' was- removed to the Southland Hospital. .INQUEST .AT. ROTORu£ ' ' ■ . Rotorua, January 29. At_an inquest regarding -the cause of the death of Reginald Lowbridgo Biggs, tho-jury brought in tho following verdict: That deceased died from the results of a bullet-wound, self-inflicted, on Umstmas morning, while temporarily insane." . v ■ .-..-.-' SUDDEN DEATH. „ r Dunedin, January 30. Margaret Estwart, a single woman, 81 years old, died suddenly at Ravensbourno last night. She was apparently in her usual health up till bedtime, but when half undressed she- fell on the bed and I expired., .','■-'■'■'■■