MISHAPS AND DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10316, 27 January 1927, Page 2

MISHAPS AND DEATHS

A CLOSE CALL

early morning crash. ,

Two stock buyers from Gisborne, strangers to Hastings, had a narrow escape trom death in street, in tne early hours of,Sunday morning. They were motoring in a sedan car along Queen street west, at 2.00 a m and and seeing' the Rost Office and’thinking that Queen street was a through street, they passed the mterseotion with' Market street at what must have been a very considerable speed, before they -became aware of the railway waggons, which brought that portion of Queen street to a dead end, at the rear of Williams a lid Kettle’s stores. Some forty feet from the railway fence the brakes were clapped on and the car skidded, notwithstanding which the car, jumping a fourinch abrupt rise in the ground, broke through the fence, smashing the substantial top rail and striding the side of one of the standing trucks so heavily that it broke one of the springs and drove the axle about six inches out of place, besides damaging the timber work. The impact of the car with the railway truck'undoubtedly saved-the motor-, ists troll! serious injury. The men escaped with the of their experience and, strange to say, the car is reported as not being much damaged, all things considered. CAR COLLIDES WITH TELE-GRADI-I POST. AUCKLAND, Jan. UK A peculiar accident occurred on t,ke main road between Panmure and OtaJiuhu. A lady was driving with her two children in a motor car, when a bin; omnibus was met. enr of ft collision caused the lady to swerve her car off the concrete, with the result that it came into collision with a telegraph post. This was snapped off, and all /the line was [nought down but although the car was damaged the occupants escaped without injury.—Special. CAR. CRASHES INTO WALL DRIVER’S NARROW ESCAPE AUCKLAND. Jan. 26. Owing to the brakes fr-limr on a motor lorry owned by Sutherland •incl Pearson Ltd.; carriers, the vehicle rushed down the Manukmi road, Parnell and crashed through an iron fence and into' the street-retaining wall at the foot of the cliff. The lorry carried a ful load of wool. The driver, Cecil Sutherland, stuck to the steering wheel to the last moment and made a flying leap for safety while bales of wool hurtled in all directions. The lorry was badly damaged.—PA.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER BURNT. SHOCK CAUSES DEATH MOTHER'S CONDITION SERIOUS. A sad mishap, attended by fatal results, occurred at a- residence in Campbell street, Port Aliuriri, o.i Friday morning, when Mrs P. Seastrand and her eighteen months’ daughter, Phillis Gloria Amanda, received burns which resulted in the death of the latter and severe injuries to the mother. About 9.15. Mrs. Seastrand was engaged in painting the kitchen stove with aluminium paint, and during the operations the brush, which she was using became ignited through the heat From the stove, there' having been a fire earlier in the morning. Tiie burning brush was inadvertently placed in the tin, the contents of which immediately took fire. Mrs. Seastrand hastened to extract the brush, and in doing so upset the tin, the paint spilling over herself and the floor. The unfortunate woman’s clothes were soon ablaze, and she could do nothing to save herself. Seeing her mother in danger the little daughter, who was standing nearby, ran to her side and the flames encircled the two. In answer to a call, Mr. Seastrand, Mrs. Seastrand’s brother-in-law, ran m and, with the assistance of an older daughter, smothered the flames with his coat, but not before mother and daughter had been most severely burned. ’ Dr. Waterworth was summoned and the two victims wore removed to the Napier Hospital, the child in critical condition. The little gul made no progress at all, and slowly sank until she died at 3.20 an Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Seastrand, although suffering from burns about the body, rallied well, and hei condition late on Sunday night was reported to he somewhat improved. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to shock following burns accidentally received. GIRL DROWNED. WESTPORT, Jan. 26. Ella Cecilia Sinclair, 12 years of age a daughter of James Sinclair, a sawmiller at Inangahua, got into difficulties at 2 p.m. while bathing with three other children, and was drowned. The body lias been recovered.- P. A. DIED ON THE ROADSIDE. . ‘ TIMARU, Jan. 26. John Taylor, aged about 55, ior some years a ship’s cook and who, latterly, had been working ashore as a cook, was found dead on the roadside near Burke’s Pass, seventeen miles from Fairlie. He had been cooking on a station in the Mackenzie Country and was walking to fl airlie when he was supposed to have taken ill and expired on the 1 roadside. He was a native of London, and, so far as is known, had no relatives in the Dominion. —P.A.