Accidents and Fatalities.
(Per Press Association.) Christciiurch, July 80. On Saturday last a lad named Frederick John Trott, 17 years of ago, a son of a farmer, while out shooting with two brothers, met with an accident. He was crossing rough country, earring a gun by the muzzle when the weapon accidentally exploded, and the charge entered one of his hands. He was brought to Christchurch and attended by Dr. De Renzie, but lockjaw set in, and he died early this morning. Dunedin, This day. Mrs Hannah Gilchrist, widow, G8 years, died suddenly at North-east Valley of apoplexy. Invercargill, July 80. Patrick Sulivan, a laborer, aged about 50, was found hanging to a tree in the bush near Winton to-day. His body was found by his own son and another boy.
The other day Mr A. J. Merrifield, a solicitor of Castlemaine, Victorie, died from bleeding from the nose, the doctors being unable to stop it. The Wanganui Herald is sorry to learn that there is no appreciable difference in the condition of Mrs I. Guthrie, who met with such a serious accident about a fortnight ago through falling down the back stairs at the Newmarket Hotel while showing one of the lady guests to her room. Besides a contusion on the head Mrs Guthrie is suffering from a fractured collar-bone and several ribs are broken. Adelaide Cogswell, a beautiful young woman, eighteen years of age, met a most horrible death at Boston while attempting to run her - elevator in the factory cvf William E. Martin and Co., at 96, SBouth street. Disobedience cost her h<£ • life, as her father had strictly enjoined her not to touch the elevator, and)women were never permitted to ride op it. One of the witnesses of the scene was her father. The cruel machinery pinned down the unfortunate girl and slowly crushed her life out, while her heartrending screams filled the entire block. Men wept and turned away their faces powerless to reach her. The elevator literally tore her head from her body and rolled it at the feet of the spectators. Just then the engine was stopped but it was too late. The factory employees were so shocked by the tragedy that they w«e uoft lor work,
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Hastings Standard, Issue 387, 31 July 1897, Page 2
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