ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Feilding Star, 30 May 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[PKB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.] Collingwood, May 29. At the Slate River sluicing claim this morning falling rock smothered Lewellyn James, aged 24. Deceased was the second son of .Prank James, of Puramafioi, whose second son was killed in the Boer war. Efforts to extricate the victim were made, and ultimately the dead body * was found. Later details show that Lewellyn James was practically drowned. He was working in the tail race* cut oat of rook on both sides and varying in height. The race had been In use 30 years, but qne of the sides slipped in immediately below James, and a small portion of the debris pinned him to the other side. Two nozzles of water were in full play at the time, and the water was dammed back in the race, and soon filled it to a height of several feet. It covered James where he lay. When the body was found, only a few stones were covering it, and there were marks of violence. Deceased was accorded a Foresters' funeral. An inquest is ' being held. The exterenie cold and heavy frosts are attributed as the cause of the race breaking. Auckland. May 29. A man named Henry McLeod, employed by a restaurant-keeper, in Parnell, has been reported missing since about 4 p.m. on the 21st. inst. McLeod had been in ill-health, and had only recently come out of the hospital. He was paralysed in the right arm, and seemed to be in low spirits when last seen. He js about 35 years of age. A young woman about 19 years of age fell into the harbour from Quaystreet jetty last night, under circumstances rather extraordinary. The accident happened between 11 and 12 o'clock, and was first discovered by the Northern Company's night watchman, who ran on board the Kanieri for a lifebelt, which he threw to the woman. She failed to secure the float, whereupon the watchman ran to the wharf to apprise the people of the Apouri, which was on the point of sailing. The second officer, Mr Adolphus Parris, heard the woman's screams, and rushing on deck picked up a heaving line. Mr Parris pro- . ceeded in the direction whence the screams came. The young lady was struggling in the water, and was being carried under the wharf. Mr Parris threw the coil of rope about her and pulled in the slack. The woman caught the rope with her hands. After about three minutes, states Mr Parris, a orowd came down the wharf. One young fellow jumped overboard, and one of H.M.S. Pioneer's boats came to the rescue. Both the young man and the young lady were picked up by the boat, and landed safely on the man-o'-waf steps. Hokitika, May 29. The daughter of W. Goodfellow, aged five, received very severe injuries to-day through her clothes catching fire. There are no hopes of her recovery. Christchurch, May 29. A little girl, named Dolly Ryder, aged three years, daughter of the caretaker of Hobbs' buildings, had a* miraculous escape yesterday afternoon. The child'B parents occupy rooms at the top of the building, and the child was playing on the roof, which is walled in. She was chasing a cat over the roof ,and stepped on an unprotected skylight and fell through the glass for a distance of 30 feet into an empty room below. She was picked up unconscious and taken to the hospital. There is very little cut or injury externally, but it is feared her spine is hurt badly, and may be permanently crippled.