ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11541, 30 March 1898, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PERISHED OH AH ICEFLOE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—• Copyright. HALIFAX, Maech 28.

Forty-five of the crew of the sealer Greenland perished on an icefloe of£ Cape Bona Vista, on the east coast of Hewfoundland. LONDON, Maech 29. The Queen sent a message of sympathy with the families of the Greenland sealers. A LIFT ACCIDENT. SYDNEY, Maech 29. A lift containing six workmen engaged at the new markets tilted. All were thrown out. Pour managed to cling to the timbers, but one named Barbour fell fifty feet on to a cask of cement. His skull was smashed, and death was instantaneous. The other fell across a beam and was dangerously hurt.

(Pee Peess Association.] AUCKLAND, Maech 29.

At an inquest touching the death of E. P. Donnelly, a verdict that death was due to a fall and injuries to the skull was returned. Deceased slipped on the asphalt pavement in Grey Street. He was an old Aucklander. He was well known in racing and hunting circles, and for a time ho was starter to the Auckland Racing Club.

A NARROW ESCAPE., TIMARH, Maech 29,

The Rev C. E. Beecroft (Wesleyan), who leaves for Auckland shortly, nearly closed his ministerial term here in a tragic manner yesterday, by swallowing a poisonous liniment in mistake for a cough mixture. A cycling visitor had left some liniment in a “cinnamon cure ” phial. To relieve hoarseness, Mr Beecroft swallowed some. He noticed that it had not the same taste as cinnamon cure, but did not think much of it. A few hours later be went to bed and became delirious. Medical aid was obtained, Drs Hogg and Bowe being in attendance for some hours. At one time it was feared that the reverend gentleman would not recover, but ho was much improved this morning. The cyclist obtained the liniment in a pfopeidy-labelled phial, but on sharing it with another put his half in tho cinnamon cure bottle, and on his departure left it behind.

An accident Occurred on Monday at Kaiapoi, at 11 o’clock, by which Mr Cornelius O’Sullivan broke one of his legs. He was driving in a dogcart, in company -with a lady and another gentleman. When going over White’s Bridge a dog ran between tho horse’s legs, frightening the horse and sending it along at a smart pace. While turning the sharp corner at the end of the bridge one wheel sank into a hole in the side of the road, upsetting the cart and throwing the occupants out with some violence. Mr O’Sullivan retained his hold on the reins, with tho result that he was dragged for some distance, and the splashboard going over his leg broke it. The other occupants, who were unhurt, quickly got to the horse’s head. The injured man was brought to the Christchurch Hospital, and is progressing favourably.