ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10596, 4 March 1895, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. [Special to Press Association,! NEW lOEK, March- 1.Kewa has been received that a train crowded with pilgrims proceeding to Lemamalia, Mexico, became derailed. A hundred persons were killed and eighty-five injured. [Peb Press Association. ! AUCKLAND, Maech 2. Kemp, second mate of tbe steamer Glenelg, while unloading cargo, had one of hia legs broken. GISBOENE March 2. _ Mr James Shaw, of Whatatupoko, is just racovenng from the effects of aa extraordinary accident, which happened the other afternoon. He was going to a tank ■with a kettle in hia hand whan a flash of lightning struck tho kettle, and the electric fluid ran through Shaw’s body to tho earth. The shock felled him to the ground. The week’s illness has been a serious and painful one. The infant child of Alfred Pritchard has died from accidental scalding. NAMES, Maech 2. A young man named Edgar Eudman had his h|g broken this morning through being thrown off his horse. A serious accident occurred on Shakapore Bond, last night. Two youths on horseback collided with a cab driven by a man named David Donohue. The latter was thrown to the ground and rendered insensible, while tho horse dashed off with tho shafts, over turning another vehicle in its mad career. A passenger in Donohue’s cab, named Worgrove, was thrown out and badly shaken. OAMAEU, Maech 3. A boy named Turnbull waa drowned in the Kakanui Eiver on Saturday. He had been working close to the river, and asked a companion to go for a hatha with him. The companion declined, and Turnbull not returning a search waa made, and his body waa found lying at the bottom of a deep pool. He , had evidently been seized with cramp. DUNEDIN, March 3. It is feared that a married German, named Christian Frederick Eohm, bootmaker, forty-five years of ago, has bean drowned. Soma boya found a man’s clothing at what is known as the Association Bath at the foot of Frederick Street, and no owner turning up reported the matter to the police. The clothes ware identified by Mrs Bohm as those of her husband, who, she said, had left home to bathe. ■'He bad'had, a few glasses of liquor at the time, but; was not under its influence. Tho police are dragging for tho body, but so far have been unsuccessful. • An inquest was, held ,ab the Sandridga Hotel on Saturday morning on the body of an infant, aged fourteen months, named Annie Esdfern, who died suddenly on the previous day. Medical evidence was given to tho effect that death had been duo to natural causes, and a verdict was returned accordingly, .On Saturday afternoon an elderly man, Joseph Patterson, who was employed by Mr J. Hannan, dairyman, of Armagh Street, waa wheeling some grass in a barrow, when he fell and fractured his right thigh. He was conveyed to the hospital on an ambulance stretcher. An inquest touching tho death of Albert William Baisham was hold at the Now Brighton Hotel on Saturday afternoon. Dr de lionzi stated that death had been due to heart disease, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.