Accidents and Fatalities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 320, 12 May 1897, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. Intelligence has been received in Auckland that William Crowder, aged 46, a coal miner, was killed at the Huntley coal mine yesterday. He had been in the mine for years. He leaves seven children. Word from Cambridge reports an attempt at suicide by a yonng woman named Amy Vickers at Rotorangi station. The girl took an ounce of landannm and then wrote the following letter :—" I have taken poison because I am miserable and want to die. There is no blame attached to anyone. Good-bye all kind friends and relations, and may God receive my soul." The letter was read by a fellow-servant and word sent to Dr. Percival and... Constable Brennan. They drove out to the station, and the usual remedies were applied, bnt the patient being still in a low condition was removed to the Hamilton Hospital. llaweha, This day. At the adjourned inquest on Essie Mason, of Kopenga, it was proved she had bought poison, " Rough on Rats," and that this was the poison she had taken. A verdict of suicide was returned and a rider was added remarking on no attempt being made to give an emetic and on the reticence of a brother. Dunedin, This day. Frederick Mitschernen, a carpenter residing at Queenstown, was drowned at Bob's Cove, Lake Wakatipu, yesterday through the swamping of a boat. His brother Robert, who was also in the boat, was rescued. The body has not been recovered. A lad named Mabuika had his right thigh broken while playing football in Westport on Saturday. A carpenter named Richard Owen fell from a scaffolding at the Thames last week and broke his collar-bone and several ribs, and sustained concussion of the brain. On Sunday at Masterton a woman named Payn§ was leading a horse "behind a trap when the animal stopped suddenly and pulled the finger of the woman clean off. One of Mrs Reed's children met with a nasty accident last week at Whangamomoa. Two of the little ones were playing with an axe, and the baby got in their way and received a gash over the left eye, about half an inch long. It appears that the man James Thompson, who attempted suicide in Masterton on Saturday morning, made out his last.will and testament, which he posted to his solicitor. The man Bays that he jumped into the river three times. The Manawatu Times says that Mr F. L. Young was out driving on the Hunterville road, when the horse became frightened and backed the trap over a cliff 40ft deep. The driver jumped clear and the horse escaped without a scratch. Two lives were lost under very sad circumstances at Viborg (Denmark.) A dwelling house was discovered to be in 'flames, and one of its inmates, a young woman, was unable to make her way out of the building. Her sweetheart, a young man named Aalkjar, rushed into the building to save her, but both perished. At the Otahuhu races on Monday, in the Pony Cup, Bird, the rider of Lena, lost his seat, and fell just after passing the winning post, through a stirrup breaking. He was picked up in a semi-conscious condition, when it was found his head and face were braised and his back and shoulders hurt. Mr W. W. Moore met with a painful accident on Saturday. He was engaged in fencing at FitzHerbert, and while working with a crowbar he lost his footing, falling over a cliff, a depth of six feet. Mr Moore put his hand out to save the fall, and in doing so put itpt-an axe, with the result that the on the third finger on the right hand was laid open to the bone. Mr Thos. Brenkley, an employe of Mr A. Svensen, of Norse wood, met with a severe accident while killing a beast on Monday morning. The bullock was a very wild one, and rushed at the T*il« outside which Mr Brenkley was stationed on horseback. One of the rails was broken in the charge, leaving the rider within reach of the bullock, which threw him off his horse. One of the horns entered his groin, and Dr. Macallan was immediately communicated with.