ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1902, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

1 A MYSTERY CLEARED UP. fBT TKLKOIUnr— OWN OOKnKSI'ONDKNI'.i FEATHERSTON, This Day. The body of the missing woman, Mrs. Sullivan, was found on Elgar's Plain yesterday. -An inquest will be held this afternoon. £l»I TKI.KORAPH — FIIE3B ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 6th April. When the 7 o'clock tram was coming down from Papanui to town last night, near the North Belt, a young woman named Mary Brown, 23 years of age, daughter of Mr. Peter Brown, of Akaroa, endeavoured to jump off .while the cars were in motion. She fell, and the tram went, over both legs, inflicting frightful injuries. She was taken to the hospital in the ambulance van, but died shortly aftor midnight. A young girl named Alice Phipps, daughter of Mr. Sydney Phipps, of Sydenhnm, was found dead in a bath this morning. It is supposed she had a fit. AUCKLAND, sth April. A man named Messenger had a narrow escape at Rotorua on Thursday. He entered a manhole .connected with the sewage system without taking the necessary precautions, and succumbed very quickly to the sulphur fumes, which in Rotorua collect in addition to other obnoxious gases common to sewerage. On seeing Messenger succumb, a Maori entered the manhole and fastened a rope around the unconscious man's body. Too fumes almost overcame the native," but he managed to reach the surface before he fainted. Messenger was then drawn up, and found to bo in a bad state. He was conveyed to his lodgings in great agony. A nine-year-old son of Mr. Alfred Huxford injured his knee in playing seesaw on the 3rd inst., and died yesterday before a doctor arrived.