ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(flt TELEGHAPH— PRSSS ASSOCIATIOK.) TIMARU, 6th December. A serious accident befell B. Lyons, a, young married man, fireman on the second express from the South, today. When crossing the Otaio River the driver (Hall) was looking ahead. Turning round, when over the bridge^ he missed the fireman and stopped the train. Lyons was found in the river-bed, having fallen through the bridge and about 14 feet to the shingle below. One leg was broken at the ankle and the hip and head Were much cut about. There were probably internal injuries. The injured man was brought to the hospital unconscious from hurts and shock. - CHRISTCHURCH, 6th Dec. An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of John Wiseman Gray, a young man who was found dead in a, vat at the Union Brewery yesterday. A verdict of accidental death, caused by asphyxia, through inhaling fumea from the vat, was returned.

Tho sixty-fifth anniversary of tho Syd-ney-stroet "Primitive Methodist Church will bo ddlebrftted to-moi'row by special services, tho preachers being Roy. H. Cotlorn and P. J. Cosstim. Special music is to bo rendered, and Mr. Newton will sing a solo at tho evening service. Tho half-yearly summoned meeting of tho Excelsior LotitfO pf Druids &U1 ■ be t-bcld^iin Mouda.».