ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9092, 1 May 1890, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

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[Special to Press Association.j [Hooeived April 30, at 1.35 p.ru.l MELBOURNE. Amsil SO. A man named Lee, who had been on a heavy drinking bout, run amuck in the city last night, and attempted to murder several persons. He was captured after a severe struggle, but not before he had inflicted seven stabs on himself, from which he died. BRISBANE, A PHIL SO. A goods train was completely wrecked near Earcaldine, by running into a washaway. No casualties are reported. Oa Tuesday evening Agnes Waters, aged eleven years, daughter of Mr M. Waters, of Lyttelton, wan, with, other children, gathering ferns in Buckley's Bay, when she fell over some rocks and broke her left wrist and sprained her left ankle. The sufferer was taken to Dr Fitz Henry, who set the limbs. The Otago Daily Times reports that Mrs Thomas Oalcutt and her niece. Miss L. Carr, met with an accident on Saturday. While driving from Goodwood House the wheel of their buggy came into contact with a gate post. The horse commenced to plunge and upset the buggy, both ladies being thrown out. Mrs Calcutt was a good deal shaken and upset, but Miss Carr escaped without any injury. The horse galloped away with the buggy until ho dropped dead, the vehicle having been by that time almost completely destroyed.