ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12533, 21 June 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATALITIES AT SEA. United Press Association—By Electrie Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, June 20. A wheat barge in tow of a steamer from Port Pirie to Port Adelaide foundered. It is believed that three bargemen perished. PERTH, June 20. A fishing boat was wrecked near Fremantle, and three foreigners are supposed to have been drowned. [Pin Peess Association.] AUCKLAND, June 20. A son of Mr William Sellwood, while crossing the Waikato River in a canoe with two companions, fell out of the vessel and disappeared before assistance could be given him. His body.has not been found yet.. At the inquest touching the death of Mr 3 O'Dowd, Dr Lowe stated that on May 16 he attended the deceased. She stated that Dr Wilkins had performed an operation, on her on the previous day. jv post-mortem showed that her organs were perfectly healthy, apart from : lxood poisoning, which was the cause of death. A shocking accident occurred at the waterworks excavations at Nibotupu shortly before ten this morning, by which two men named Hugh Fulton and William Smyths lost their lives through a fall of earth and rocks. The accident took place on No. 12 contract, at which fiva men were working. The two deceased and' tnf-ee mien named Evans, Rosier and Parker. Evans saw a great fall of earth and; rocks bury Fulton and S'mythe, and at once went in to Waikomiiti' to send news to town'. Fulton was contractor for tho section, and oame from Kaukaupakap'a-ka. Smythe, who was nineteen years of age, came from Nihotupa. All the men available were at once set to work to recover the bodies, which were unearthed about four p.m., under about 200 tons of debris', life, of being extinct. 'Fulton was a married l man with seven cMldSren. WESTPORT, June 20. A serious accident happened l this morning at Henly Street railway crossing. An expressman named W. Gre<an was crossing the line with an express, and 'did not notice an «ngine approaching through his view of tha Uro being blocked by the railway workshops. A collision' occurred, with the result, that the express was smashed to pieces and the horse injured. Green- was thrown out and sustained very juries, the precise nature of which are nob •yet ascertained. Green is an old West Coaster. WAIROA, June 20. A man named George Bridger Flint, an old military settler, was found dead on the Marine Parade. He was on his way home from seeing a doctor. He suffered from heart disease. BLENHEIM, June 20. An elderly trnan named James Townsend Edwards, employed at the Awatere Accommodation House, sixteen miles from hero, was found dead in: his bed this morning. An inquest wiE be held to-morrow.