ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11751, 1 December 1898, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. HAVANA, Nov. 29., Forty persons were injured, eighteen fatally, by an explosion of gunpowder here, caused by carelessness in the disposal of a lighted cigar. DUNEDIN, Nov. 30. Edwin Brown, a married man, brother of the bailiff at Dunedin, was drowned near Owaka on Tuesday. FATAL ACCIDENTS, Mr '!'• H. Hendy, who was knocked down by a cyclist at the corner of Tuam and Montreal Streets on Thursday last, and had- one of his thighs broken and was also badly ', bruised, died, at the hospital on Tuesday night. At the time the accident happened Mr liendys attention was fixed on some passing vehicles, and neither he nor Mr Mason, the cyclist, saw one another until it was 100 late to avoid a collision. Mr Mason did all he could to assist deceased, and saw him taken to the hospital. An inquest will be held at the hospital at nine o’clock this morning. A young man named .Joseph Davey, a. carter, was killed on Tuesday while carting shingle, at Arowhenua. A dray had stuck in the soft earth, and two horses were used to shift it. The horses went forward at a gallop, and Davey was tripped up by the hanging reins and the wheel of' the dray passed over his body. He was attended to by Dr Raves, but died within half an hour. At an inquest, held the same day, a verdict of " Accidental death” was returned.

Mrs F. C. Binns met with a painful accident last evening. She was in the act of getting into a. vehicle on the Springfield Roid when the horse made a sudden start. Mrs Binns was thrown on the road and her ankle was fractured. She was taken to her home on an ambulance stretcher.