ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 3, 4 January 1900, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

\UY TKLEGRAFH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILL, 3rd January. Mrs. Ramsay, wife of the manager of t^ie Ourawera Goldmining Company, Rjundhill, died after' an administration of chloroform in a dental surgery in town "to-day. A medical man 'was present. The deceased leaves several children. ' < DUNEDIN, 3rd January. Thomas Pennel, the son of a butcher at Kaitangata, died to-day from injuries received through a horse bolting. He was riding out for orders, when his horse apparently took fright at a train and bolted alongside the train. He either fell or was thrown off, and his coat became entangled with the brake of one of the waggons. He was dragged about 40tt before the- train could be pulled up. He was very badly injured about the head. He met with the v fatal accident on his twenty-seventh birthday. AUCKLAND, 3rd January. While engaged in fishing on the beach near Maunganui .bluff several Mangatu settlers had a narrow escape from drowning. Two men named Cochrane and J. Stehr were overturned by a huge wave. The latter when near shore and safety, seeing the danger Cochrane- was in, pluckily returned to his rescue. When both were nearly done for Mr. Nelson, a • storekeeper, rushed in and saved them. Further particulars of the burning fatality at Newman in which the 17 months old child, Marsden David Amos, met his death go to show that about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the fire in the stove had nearly gone out, and Victor Amos (aged 11) who had been left in charge ot two other lit tie children, went outside to procure some wood. On his return a few minutes later he found his baby sister screaming, with her clothes ablaze. 'He quickly removed the outer garments and emothered the flames on the remainder. Seeing that his sister was terribly burnt about the legs, abdomen, breast, boy, with &reat presence of mind, "put the little sufferer to bed and applied oil to the burns. As already stated, the injuries sustained were very severe, the case was a hopeless one from the first. The danger of jumping off moving tramcars was again exemplified last night Mr. E. E. K. Mander, in attempting to alight from a car near the Lambton .Quay Police Station, by some means caught his foot in the step, and was thrown heavily on his back on the road-. The tram-driver and guard did not notice the occurrence, but some passers-by went to the injured man's assistance and conveyed him to Dr. De Renzi's, and subsequently to his home in Hill-street. It was found that Mr. Mander's spine was injured, but, it is thought, not very seriously. An accident occurred on Thomdon-quay yesterday afternoon, a young lady who was being driven out to Wallaceville by her brother, Mr. Wm. Ryan, being thrown out of the vehicle on to the road. The accident happened as the driver was crossing the tramline, which, it is said, is above the road level at this point. The young lady was attended by Dr. Cahill, who does not anticipate any serious results, though the shock was severe. A painful accident befell Richard Swain, of Wingfield-street, a wharf labourer, about half-past seven last night, on the s.s Delphic, where lie was assisting to store cargo. A quarter of frozen beef slipped out of the sling, and striking Swain's left forearm, fractured Ihe bone and tore off most of the flesh. The injuries were attended to by Dr. Mackin, who ordered the sufferer's removal to the Hospital, where he is rewwl 1& be progressing as well as can