ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9995, 25 March 1893, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fPsa Pa»K3 /i««os)tA'riOtt.l DUNEDIN, 1-liKcxi 24, At sea, this morning, while the Poherua was voyaging from Lyttelton to tas BiulT, James Loupere, a fireman, while trimming coals, was overtaken aad smothered before he could be extricated, The deceased was twenty-one years old. Kia parents reama at Wellington. Mr John Bowman, an engineer residing at Upper K.ccarcoa, met with, an accident at Rotherham about half-past six yesterday morning. He was driving » traction canine up a hill, and. v/aa in the act cf fixing a fchoo to one of the wheels, when the engine slipped backwards, and tbs unfortunate man lost the fingers of his left band. Dr Fitzhcary, of Amburioy, was telephoned for, went, by train to Cuiverdon, dressed the tnau’a hand, and ordered Ins removal to tuo H .rp.tr,!.

As two boys wore runn > ■<: acroce Colombo street, near the City Hotel, about a quarter past seven last, evening, one of thorn, named Alexander Gillian, collided w ith a man on a bicycle. The boy wea severely shaken, and received a wound ..a the right leg. Ho was conveyed to the. hospital ia ft cab. The cyclist was riding in the middle of the street, and bis lame wp-a alight. , , , . A boy named O’Callagban was taken to the hospital last night, suffering from . a wound on one of liia arms, sustained by falling off a pile of timber. After the wound had bean attended to the boy was taken home.