ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10560, 21 January 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. [Special to Press Association. I THE ENTOMBED MINER’S. LONDON, Jan. 18. The manager of the Diglake colliery has entirely abandoned all hope of rescuing the remainder of the entombed miners, and he expects that some months will elapse before their bodies are reached. KILLED BY AVALANCHES. BERNE, Jan. 18, I

Daring the last few days heavy avalanches have fallen in many parts of Switzerland, and the loss of life has been considerable. / TWO YOUTHS DROWNED. SYDNEY, Jan. 20. Three youths want rowing to-day in a boat at Narrabeen, near Manly, and eventually, as the boat was gradually drifting to seaward, jumped overboard. Two of the occupants. Baldock and Parkcs (grandson of Sir Henry Parkes), were drowned. The third youth was landed in a critical condition. - [Feb Press Association.! • WESTPORT, Jan, 19. Mr Moynihan, the solicitor, who was injured by a fall from a horse on Thursday, is in a very low state, being paralysed over the greater portion of his body. As a last chance the medical men will perform a delicate operation for the removal of pressure on the spinal cord to-morrow morning. FATAL TEAM ACCIDENT. An accident which had a fatal termination happened on the New Brighton tram lino on Saturday morning. As the eleven o’clock tram from Christchurch was pulling up at New Brighton, a hoy, named William Cowper, aged thirteen years, a son of Mr Cowper, a news-agent of that place, jumped on to the front car to lookfor a parcel which ha expected. While examining the parcels which were on the foot-board of the carriage, he fell off, and the hinder car passed over him, almost severing his left arm and leg, smashing his right hand and injuriog his light leg. Ho was at once taken to >hia father’s house, opposite which the aec dent occurred, and ■ was attended by Dr Russel). After receiving all the attention that could be given him on the spot, the boy was brought by special tram to town. Ho was nut by Sergeant Briggs with the ambulance stretcher and taken to the hospital, where Ha loft leg and arm ware amputated, but ho gradually sank, and died at ten o’clock on Saturday night. An inquest will be held at the hospital at nine o’olcck this morning*