ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11367, 7 September 1897, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Sept. 6. Oa Saturday night Mr Thorpe, o£ Ellerslie, when removing an Alderney bull, was gored under the chin. His neck and face were injured, and three of his ribs were broken. Mrs Thorpe drove the bull away with a clothes prop. Thorpe’s condition is serious. The bull has been shot. Charles Sinclair, while unloading timber from the Westralia, was severely injured on the head and shoulders. The slings gave way and the timber fell on him. He is married and has a large family. PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 6. At an inqnesi on the girl Edith Carter, who died on Saturday while undergoing a dental operation, the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from paralysis of the heart, caused by inhalation of methyline. Mr A. Harrison, of Fernside, who was run over by a dray on Saturday, is progressing favourably. When he met with the accident ho was at Swannanoa carting turnips for sheep. He was going to the horse’s head to pull it up, when the propstick of the dray dropped and tripped him. The wheel passed over his back and injured his left lung, though no bones were broken. Mr Eli Prattley, of Milford, when crossing the Opihi at the Seadown ford on Saturday evening had a narrow escape from drowning. His horse, a young one, was swept off tho ford and the trap capsized. Mr Prattley, who cannot swim, managed to reach the bank after a severe struggle, but the horse was drowned, and it and the vehicle were swept away to the beach. This is the first occasion for twelve months that the Opihi has been in flood.