ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10912, 21 March 1896, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THEBE MEN DROWNED. [Pie. Pbbss Association.] PERTH, March 20. By the tootling of a shaft at the New Chxun mine. Mount Magnet, three men, Campbell, Cook and Daniels were drowned. Owing to heavy rain the water came down the gully like a wave, and entered the shaft without any warning. At Eangiora yesterday morning a threehorse team, with empty dray, belonging to Mr M. Macfarlane, bolted from the goods shed at the Railway Station, the cause of the horses taking fright being some sheep and dogs rushing between their legs. The dray came into collision with Mr W. A. Burt’s office on his coal site at the station, the sadden check bringing the horses down in a heap, with the result that a shaft penetrated deeply into the side of one of the leaders. The horses regained their feet and made off again through the station yard to High Street, where Mr M. Melbourne siezed the leaders and stopped them, but the traces giving way the shatter continued on its course with the dray, from which it freed itself near the Cam mill. The injured horse, one of Mr Macfarlane’s prize mares, valued at fully £25, died very quickly after being stopped. Mr Burt’s office was considerably wrecked and the dray was also damaged. An inquest was held at Waimate on Thursday, before Mr J. Sinclair (acting coroner), and a jury of six, of which Mr H. E. Mann was chosen foreman, touching the death of Jeremiah P. O’Sullivan, late of Christchurch, who met his death through an accident, which occurred on Saturday ■night, when riding on a railway trolley from Studholme to Waimate. After hearing evidence the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider that in their opinion the trolleys used were not safe.

The body of a man named Harry Greenaway was found lying in about six inches of water, near a bridge at Tinwald, about five o’clock, on Thursday evening. The body was perfectly nude when found. It appears that deceased had been suffering severe internal pains for some time past, and it is presumed that the pains coming suddenly upon him he had lain down in the cold water in the hope of finding relief, and that the sudden shock interfered with the heart’s action, causing death from syncope. Deceased was a steady, respectable man, about thirty years old, and had lived in the district for a long time, and his sudden death is much regretted. An inquest will be held.