ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SUDDEN COLLAPSE. Charles John Wilson, an old resident, aged about seventy; collapsed in Princes street at 6.30 last evening, and expired while being conveyed by ambulance to the hospital. Deceased,, who was married, resided in Maclaggain street. He is supposed to have died from heart disease. An inquest was held on the body this afternoon. ACCIDENTALLY ASPHYXIATED. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 21. Mrs Margaret Odium, aged seventy-four, was found dead at her residence yesterday. The coroner found that death v was due_ to asphyxiation, caused by the accidental escape of coal gas. Presumably deceased wont to bed not knowing that the -gas jet was partially turned on. FIREMEN FALL INTO HARBOR. ONE DROWNED. At Timaru on Saturday evening three firemen from the steamer Mahana- fell over the wharf into the harbor. Ono clambered up on the cross-beams of the wharf uninjured; another, named Harvey, had an ankle badly crushed between the ship and the fender; and the third, a married man named Samuel Knowles, aged twenty-four years, a native of Leeds, was drowned. PECULIAR FATAL ACCIDENT. [Per United Press Association.] NAPIER, August 21. An accident, which resulted in the death of John Alexander Strachan, aged twentynine, occurred at Tarada-le. Tno deceased was driving a horse in a spring-cart. The horse took fright, and backed the cart into a ditch, in which there was a foot of water. The deceased was -thrown out into the ditch, and -the horse fell on top of him. Several minutes elapsed before Straohan could bo extricated, and first aid was then applied, but without success. RUN OVER BY A DRAY. [Per United Press Association.] TIMARU, August 21. A single man named George Fowler was lulled near Arundel on Saturday by being run over by a dray, which ho was driving. KILLED BY FALLING TREE. A Wanganui Association message states that Frederick Leighton, aged forty-four years and married, was killed yesterday. He was watching two friends fell a tree at Aramoho, when it struck another tree and fell on him. Deceased leaves a wife and four children. The body of a man was discovered floating in Wellington Harbor. Papers found in the pockets are those of Joseph Cairns, a seaman discharged from the steamer Waatomo at Lyttelton.