ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10595, 2 March 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

a MINING DISASTER. [Special to Peess Association.] WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. By a fire iu a mine at Cerillos, New Mexico, twenty-five men have been killed and sixty-five entombed. It is feared that their position ia hopeless. [Pee Peess Association. I WELLINGTON, March 1. A man named Harry Parsonage, while working a jack on a gangway at Carmichael’s contract for the Harbour Board’s bonded shores, fell to tho ground, and tbe jack came on top of him, inflicting a fracture of tho skull. The injured man died while being conveyed to the hospital. His brother George was seriously injured a few days ago by falling off a scaffold. * TIMARU, March 1. A serious trap accident happened this afternoon. Mr’Orhell, manager of the Levels Estate, and Mr Oliver (Oamnru), a sbeop buyer, were driving in a buggy downwill near Taiko Mat, when the breeching broke. The horse started kicking, and then bolted. Messrs Orbell and Oliver here thrown out. Tho former was a good deal bruised and shaken, while Mr Oliver was moat seriously injured. Hia spine ia affected, for he is paralysed from the waist down. Ha was brought to Timaru. and will be conveyed home in the morning. . SUDDEN DEATH. A case of sudden death took place at Ne w Brighton early yesterday morning. It appears that a young man named Herbert Barsham, a printer, in the employ of Mr H. J. Weeks, has been with his family living at New Brighton for some weeks, and yesterday morning his wife was awakened by hearing a peculiar noise in his throat. She at once sent for Dr Greenwood, but upon hia arrival he could only pronounce life to be extinct. An inquest will be held.