ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Michael Bowie, a carrier, who fell from a oarb on the 14th inst., and who was admitted to the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, died last night. The deceased was a married man, and was 42 years of age, Clifford Blake, aged 15., was caught in the goods lift at Cooper’s, seedmen’s warehouse, at Christchurch yesterday afternoon. The lift was apparently started by another lad on the floor below. Blake jumped on as the lift rose, and was jammed against the brick arch, being held by the groin, and stopping the lift. The sufferer was removed to the hospital. His injuries include a broken pelvis. The nine-months-old son of Mr F. A. Willcocks, a widow, residing at the residence of Mr W. H. Pi'ice, of Seafield road, Ashburton, met his death yesterday in a peculiar manner. It appears that at 10 o’clock the mother pub the baby to sleep in a go-eart. She tied his clothes to the back of the go-cart with tape, so that he could not fall out in her absence, and left him in the kitchen. In company with Mr Price, she then drove to Tinwald, and after calling at a house there, returned to her residence, having been absent about an hoar. She saw the child suspended between the gocart and the floor by the tape, and she immediately took him in her arms, and drove to Ashburton, and consulted a doctor, who pronounced life to be extinct. It seems that the baby struggled out of the so-cart and fell, over the side, and was held in such a position by the tape as to cause death. The inquest has been adjourned till Friday to allow of a post mortem examination being made. A Marion message states that a shocking fatality occurred at Marton Junction railway oroesing last night, when the 9 o’clock goods train knocked down and ran over a middle-aged man, John Swallow, a builder. Swallow was cut in halves, and was terribly mutilated. The deceased leaves a widow and three children.