ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

United Press Association—By .Electric Telegraph—Conyright.

THE-SHEPPAETON EXPLOSION. MELBOURNE, May 9.

Fred MDonald, the~second -victim of "the Shepparton explosion,, .isnob dead, but .is da a critical condition. Tile adjoining hotel and residences were badly damaged by-the force of the exploaon. Bricks -were .-blown through the Trails and roof of a factory-a hundred .yards-away,. and larger pteces-of-imm-were hurled overlive hundred yards. A. grrLnamed Pinner received painfukinjuries; to the bead. by flying debris.

[Pek Phess AssocrsrioK.] DUNEDIN, May R

Mr John Richards, an old resident of' Cromwell, died suddenly yesterday in the City Hotel, where he was staying, after' eating his breakfast. At the inquest, a verdict was returned of death from failureof the heart’s action.

IwVERCAEGILL, May 9.

Albert Reynolds, aged twenty, was-found. unconscious on the road near Wrey’s Bush on Saturday night, and died on Sunday morning. He ,was driving coal from Nightcaps, and it is supposed that he had fallen, from the waggon or been lacked by a horse. His parents, who came from Dunedin, lastweek, reside at Wrey’s Bush.

' On Monday evening, ;as Messrs M. Templeton and G. Wihnot were' riding their bicycles through , Papaarai towards Kaiapoi, another cyclist riding in the opposite direction collided with Mr Templeton, severely injuring him and smashing bis machine. The rider who ran into Mr Templeton was without a light. The in-' jured .man was taken to Kaiapoi on Mr T. Heney’s waggon. Yesterday afternoon, a young man, Henry Webster, a groomi-at. the Hill Top Hotel, Little River, was driving home from .Lincoln. When near Kahuna his horse went over the bank off the road, and threw the driver out of the trap rbreaking bis leg above the right ankle. Webster managed to hold on to the reins and succeeded in getting into the trap again, but could not get the horse to move. He found that he had left his whip on the road, and as there was nobody about to render assistance he got out of the trap and recovered it. He then drove to Mr Millar’s, at Gebbie’s Valley, where Ms injuries were attended to-as far as possible, and be was brought to town by the evening train, and taken to the hospital in the horse ambulance van. There were two accidents on board the steamer Wakanui, in the graving dock, at Lyttelton, on Monday, evening. Harry Jones, one- of the men employed in painting the vessel, lost ibis balance from the staging, and fell qji to the floor of the dock, injuring one of his wrists rather badly, wMle a carpenter named Evans sustained injuries to his bade by a piece of timber accidentally falling on it from the ’tween- decks.