ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12538, 27 June 1901, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AN ACCIDENT AT SEA. United Press Association—(By- Electric Telegraph—Copyright >, NEW YORK, June 25.' Tha ship Joseph B. Thomas, bound from Newcastle to Acapulco, has put into Honolulu. She reported that her captain, named Brower, had been drowned.

COLLISION OF TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS. TOKIO, June 26. During naval manoeuvrea off Oshiima, three torpedo' destroyers collided. One sank and several lives were lost. BURSTING OP A GUN. LONDON, June 26. The breechi of a twelve-pounder gum burst at artillery practice at Newport, killing the captain and gunner, and wom/nding six others. William Wit hell, a painter, was taken to the Hospital yesterday, suffering from a fracture of the skull. He fell through a trap-door behind the old wooden 'building next to Messrs Beath and. Co.'s, and struck his head against a hard l concrete floor. He waa not seen to fall, but at about 10.30 a.m. foe was found, lying on his side on the floor beneath the trap-door. He la about twenty-one years of age, amid was only taken on the job at the building yesterday morning. Though: his oondiitJoni is very dangerous, there are- possibilities of his recovery. He was quite unconscious when taken to the Hospital, and remained so nearly all day, but hod regained coteciousness to a slight extent test evening. Mr Wells, paymaster of H.M.S. Royal Arthur, met with an accident on Tuesday, wthen following tha hounds, his -horse falling at a "jump and rolling on him. He was taken to the hospital, where the injuries he !hadl sustained were attended to. Last evening he was progressing well, but it will be some time before he recovers, and lie will not be able to join his vessel before it leaves these shores.