ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10314, 5 April 1894, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Spicial to Pbbbb Association.] ■■■Tt;-:'.-LONDON, April 4, A teUgrMfc;frflxn. Marseilles states that -.Wales attempted to enter *, moping train at the City Stjitidhi. and narrowly escaped sustaining seriotsinjury. The engineer -stopped the engine in time to prevent an Occident. ‘, MELBOURNE, April 4. A M;ioui railway collision occurred'toCook’s excursion train from Adelaide dashing into a goods train near West Footscray. Four trucks in the latter :;ji|reresmashed to pieces. The gboa»''"'i^'\' ;; ’ at" the time of the accident, and the station officials iaythatthe'jignaTs were against the excursion train. Oneladypassenget received a severs shock, and a number of children sustained slight injuries/ Two hundred passengers were on board the Adelaide train, and for some time the greatest &s< citesient prevailed. The officials in change of the excursion train have been suspend# until an inquiry has been held. [Fza Faxes AssooiAtioN.l AUCKLAND, April 4. Thomas -Ericson, a Swede, was staked whils crossing the Wairoa river. Bay of Plenty, and died on the steamer while being brought to town. He leaves a wife. ; Mr O’Beirne, lately employed in the Government Printing Office, Wellington, died from the effects of phosphorus poison* lag in the hospital. -v NAPIER, April 4.- • The ’ body . of .Duncan Maofarlane, drowned in the December flood, baa been recover ed’at Maraekskaho. / . . WELLINGTON, Aprii. 4. A man named James Maclaren, residing at Ngakontu, near Martinhorougb, died from.the.'effects-vf a ballet wound in the leg caused; .'ift .is believed. thrpagh the accidental dischargeaf .-a carbine; .•; y HOKITIKA; April -4'.. By a fire this morningtw&cbttagea were' destroyed. . The. only; occupant of/one, an bid woman, Mrs 'Bichards. waa burht to death, her.: body belhg 'fdimd/Amongst the smoking remains. She had apparently been suffocated in bed by the smoke. The bouse was one mass of flames when the fire was discovered, and it was impossible to affect an entrance.: , -INQUEST. ■ ' An inquest touching the death of Andrew Allwell, who died on Monday evening, was held at the Hospital yesterday morning. Mr E. Beetham, coroner, presided, and Mr "A. -Wright was chosen foreman of[the jury. V ' ■ Emily Crooks stated that she knew the deceaeed/Who was aboaxder at Burke’s Hotel, as "OldDad.’* -Just before eleven o’clock at night bn March 3D he came into the bar and got a pipe which witness had found. He was then quite-sober. After dosing the bar.witness went upstairs and parsed deceased on the stairs. She told him he waa going up the wrong stairs. He turned to go back, and his foot slipped and he.-fell backwards down about ten steps. , v, '.. ‘ Joseph William-Miller stated that he was in thai hotel on . the night mentioned, and heard a fall upstairs. Witness and another, young man went up and found deceased lying with his bead on the landing and his rest .on the stairs. Witness ezamih#:himih«d: found the only injury to bepnthe.baokof his head. He and Mr Burke then carried deceased to his room, and sent fbr a doctor.. Had seen deceased about twenty minutes before the accident, and he seemed sober then. Patrick Burke, theilicensea bf the hotel, atated-that deceased had boarded with him since 1830 at various hotels. Deceased was about seventy- years old. After the accident Br Anderson was. sent for and examined deceased, - but said he could hardly tell the.. nature of the , injuries. When he called the next day he advised them tojf amove deceased to the hospital, wbichwasdoneatonce. <Br Murray- Aynsley deposed that deceased was -brought-to the hospital on March 30, about 1.30. - He was in a oomatoo'a otate, - and remained: so till Bunday. - He hadalight convulsions then, and gradually eank‘ and - died, on April 2. Witness made a post-mortem examination. Thera was a large clot of blood on the left aide of the brain, and the heart ,#nd liver wore diseased. * The actual cause of. death was thetutrinsgof'a blood-vessel on the brain, causing apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”