ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9510, 4 September 1891, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Press Association.] [Received Sept. 3, at 8.15 u.tn.J CAPSIZE OF A STEAMER. OTTAWA, Sept. 2. Daring a hurricane tho steamer Dunmurray capsized off the coast of Nova Scotia, and eight persons were drowned. RACEHORSES BURNED. LONDON, Sept. 2. By a fire at stables ia Ayr, nine racehorses were burned to death.

An extraordinary accident which bofel Mr Yv r . Ritchie, of the firm o£ Ritchie and Wilson, Wanganui, on Saturday last, is thus described ia Monday’s Wanganui I Chronicle :—At the time of the accident Mr and Mrs Ritchie were driving down St John’s Hill, when the horse fell with such, suddenness as to throw Mr Ritchie clean, o ut of tlie carriage. In his fall the foot of hh-a unfortunate gentleman caught in the fxxre carriage of the baggy, where it remai nsd firmly^fixed. Directly after its fall the h o-rse managed to regain itself, and started off .-it a mad p'aeo down tao bill. The wheel of tho buo-gy passed over Mr Ritchie’s chd'it, and after that ho was dragged bones Ah. tho vehicle for a distance of some xiv e -or six chains. lathe meantime Mrs Ritdhio, in the buggy, bad no control over the excited animal, as her husband still 'held the reins in his hand. Ultimately toe horse was stopped by those attracted By the unwonted sounds, but Mr Ritchie, could not be extricated from his dangerous position until tho wheel of the buggy had been removed. When he was releaijed he was found to be dreadfully cut and. ‘bruised on the back of the head and across the shoulders, but thanks to the extraordinary strength of his frame wo ar.-e happy to he able to sav that no bone s were broken, which is a fact that caused Dr Earle no little surprise when ho vas called in to attend to the injuries ox the sufferer.

The friends of Miss Corr.ei ford will be glad to learn that she hhs bo its: recovered from the effects of her recent severe accident as to be able to leave the Hospital, which she quitted yesterday. A lad named Eerbecb Cusdm, residing with hia parents in Sfc Asaph street, while trying to catch a horse in an adjoinin'' section on Wednesday night was kicked by the animal, and sustained a fracture of the right arm aud elbow, which necessitated hi 3 ron’joval to tba Hospital.