ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14097, 26 June 1906, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRAAIOAR ACCIDENT. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 24. The driver having lost control of a tramoar full of passengers bn Highgato Hill, the car crashed, running at sixty miles an hour, into a mourning hearse and a furniture van, and was finally telescoped by a motor omnibus. Threo persons were killed and twenty-one seriously injured. [Prb Prkss Association.] AUCKLAND. June 25. William Brooke, when shooting near Waiuku, in company with a man named Hudson, was accidentally shot dead. Brook© was well-known in the Waikato, and was a married man with one son. A capsized canoe, with guns and ducks attached, was found in Lake Waikare on Sunday. It belonged to Thomas. Foote, flax miller, who was shooting with a friend. Foote was a good swimmer, and it is hoped that the occupants ,of the oanoe have succeeded in landing on an island in the vicinity. A man named Charles William Johnson died in the Auckland Hospital this morning as the result of a fall from the wharf to the deck of the eoow Southern Isles, on June 16. A ten-year-old girl fell off a tram this morning between Avondale and New Lynn., and sustained concussion of the brain, paralysis of the right side and a broken arm. She was standing on the platform of one of the carriages with her brother (eight years of age), and while the train was rounding a bend she was thrown off. The child’s condition is serious. She is a daughter of Mr Edward Whitehouse, a settler at Alatakohe.

GISBORNE, June 25. At Saturday's hunt, Mr Roy Allwood, of Waikato, was thrown and sustained a broken jaw, with concussion of the brain. His horse’s neck was broken. Samuel. Trescowthick, aged about fiftv-threOj a butcher, fell dead this evening, just after alighting from a delivery cart. STRATFORD, Juno 25. Miss Ivy Clayton, of Stratford, was the victim of a shocking accident cm Saturday evening. While she was riding a restive horse the animal reared, falling back on her. She sustained internal injuries of a most serious nature, and her condition is extremely critical. DUNEDIN, June 25. The body of a man was found, caught by one of the headlines of the Monte Christo dredge, near Clyde, this morning. No one has been reported as missing for some months'past. Some months ago doubt was expressed whether a body found in the Clutha was that of Anderson, who had fallen off the dredge in the Clutha River, many being of opinion that the body was that of a man named Steel, who was missing. It is surmised that the body found this morning must bo that of one of these men. The remains were nude, except for a pair of new boots.

On Thursday Mr John Smith, president of the Walmato Workers’ Union, mot with a painful accident, being severely cut on the hand by a gonso knife. An inquest was held at Methveu, on Saturday, before Mr W. Morgan, coroner, on the body of Letitia Fleming, a two-year-old daughter of Mr J. Fleming,'who died as the result of burns. Tlfe mother of the child gave evidence to the effect that she had occasion to leave the house for a few minutes, leaving the deceased and a sister aged six alone in the house. Apparently they had picked up a hearth brush, and set the bristles on fire, and from that set her clothes on fire. Dr. L. Leon-James said that the child died froni shock, caused hy the burns, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect.