ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19274, 12 June 1926, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BOY’S FALL FROM GANGWAY. While coming down tho gangway of tho Ruapehu at Lyttelton a boy named Jack Droragoolo, aged twelve years, overbalanced and fell into the harbor. Ho struck the wharf, breaking one arm. A lifebelt kept him afloat until be was secured by a, rope. He was afterwards removed to the Christchurch Hospital. CRUSHED BY FALLING ROCK. A Blenheim Association message states that a young man, Norman M'Kenzie, working at Benopai in an excavation in connection with thoMaihopai hydro-electric scheme, was injured by a fall of rock at 11 o’clock last night. Ho was brought to Wairau Hospital in the ambulance. The extent of his injuries is unknown, but ho is believed to bo crushed about the hips, CHILD CUT DOWN BY TRAIN. A two-year-old child named Dobbs, while wandering on the railway lino at the Huntly crossing, was run over by a goods train, and had an arm and log severed. The child is in a precarious condition.—Auckland P.A. telegram. FALL FROM BICYCLE. Alexander Corbett, a young man who lives at 18 Allen street, was admitted to tho hospital at 5 p.m. yesterday sulforing from head injuries caused through his falling from a bicycle. Ho is improving satisfactorily. KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR. Benjamin Jones, aged fifty-five years, residing at 48 Maitland street, was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Carroll and Princes streets last evening. Ho .sustained slight injuries to tho head and a sprained ankle, and was removed to tho hospital. lie is recovering steadily. WIRELESS OPERATOR INJURED. Arthur N. Wishart, single, aged twenty-eight, while manipulating one of tho wireless sets at the Chief Post Office, bridged two live wires, and was subjected to a high voltage and rendered unconscious, lie was admitted to tho hospital suffering from partial electrocution. His condition is satisfactory.—Auckland Press Association telegram.