ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13127, 15 May 1903, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 14. A young man named James Gamble, a carter, was leading a horse, when it took fright at an electric tram-car, and jumped in front of the car, dragging Gamble across the rails. The emergency 'brake was applied, : but Gamble was then practically under the car. He was caught by the lifeguard, and was extricated with serious injuries to one arm and both knees, and a scalp wound. He was taken to the hospital, and the arm was amputated at the elbow. ..Though not put of danger, he is doing very fvvell. ':

A 'man named J. Wyman. met with an accident at Messrs J. and A. Anderson's foundry yesterday, a piece of steel Hying up and striking him in the left eye. He was taken to the hospital. Though his injuries are severe, it is expected that he will not lose his c-ye. When the 2 p.m. train from Lyttelton reached lieathcote yesterday, a passenger reported that one of two men, marine firemen, who had been seen in a second class carriage, was missing His mate, a man named John Ward, seemed unable to say what had become of him. A telephone! message was sent to Lyttelton, aiid a party despatched into the tunnel with a. trolly and stretcher. They overtook the man, who had fallen off the carriage, near the mouth of the tunnel, walking towards Heathcote.. His name is Charles O'Neill. He had received a bad scalp wound, and he was unable to tell how he had fallen. He was sent to Lyttelton by a goods train, taken to the casual ward, and attended by Dr Upham. No serious consequences are anticipated. INQUEST. An inquest was held at the Morgue yesterday morning, before Mr R. Beethami" Coroner, touching flie death of 'Thomas Cooney, who was killed in a railway accident, at Rollest.on, on the evening of May 12. Mr Gillbanks was chosen foreman of the pury. Dr Thomas, who examined the deceased at the Christ church Railway Station, stated that the deceased had succumbed to injuries to the head. A. Skelton, a labourer, living at Broadfields, said that Mr Cooney, who had been sitting next the/ witness in the carriage, got out as the train near-ed Rollestori, and went on. to the platform. Before the train stopped, deceased stepped oft' the platform of the carriage. He slipped, and went down quickly. The deceased was sober. The 'train had not passed the station platform when Mr Coonoy stepped off. Charles Young, st'ationmaster at Rolleston, said that when the engine passed him it was gong about sis or eight miles an hour less than usual. It slowed down as usual; there was no jerk. Samuel Horsncll, the guard on the train, said that there ' had been a good stop, without a jerk. Mr Cooney seemed to l)e over anxious in regard to being carried past Rolleston. Edward Johnston, driver of the express, also said that there had been no jerk. The stop was a perfect one. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.