ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

EXPLOSION IN A TUNNEL.

TWO MEN INJURED—ONE FATALLY.

Archibald Kitto ia returned soldier, who was' twice wounded) and Tom Borthwick (a married mar.) v, cro badly injured by an cvplccion in tho Okanu tunnel {near Tanmarunui) yesterday. Mr Kitto injured his head end fractured his arras and _ kgs. while Mr Borthwick mot with injuries to his eyes. Both were taken to, the Tanmu unui Hospital in a special train. A P.A. message from T-aurnarmuii today Etav.cs that Mr Kitto had one eye blown clean out and was totally blinded, tie died in tho ImspiL-l this morning. Hr Borthwick suffered injuries to his face with pellets of papa, which came like shots from a gun. Both eyes were injured, and at present he is blind, and may become permanently so. He was not injured about the body. Two stories oi the accident arc given—one that, in drilling, tho man struck tho main charge, and the other that the charge misfired and they went to investigate.

At -Maeterton yesterday afternoon a train collided with a motor lorry driven hv Robert Baattio r.t the railway station. The lorrr was considerably smashed .about, and Mr Beattie was admitted to tho hos£,l suffering from severe injuries to his d and loft eye.

While Edward Bnliington, man, employed as a carpenter at Raiapoi, was rldiW a motor cycle on Saturday niflho. ho collided with a. cart. He died in the Christchurch Hospital yesterday, Constable Fox, of Milton, reports that George Read, laborer, Milbuvn, So years of age, was fennel dead outside his residence nt 9,20 this morning. The constable states that tho circumstances suggest suicide.