ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14976, 23 April 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] THAMES, April 22. At the inquest on the woman Wateno, killed by falling off a train, the evidence was that she got out of a carriage and her husband followed hor. Tho train started, and he hurried her to the guard’s van and got on the footboard and turned towards tho door to bettor assist her, but the woman either fell or jumped off tho train. WELLINGTON, April 22. A female patient at tho Hospital, named Louie Eastbury, who was admitted on Tuesday, was missed from her bed on Wednesday night, and subsequently was found in tho coal hole in a state of collapse. She died to-day. At the inquest tho coroner found that death was duo to delirium tremens. A man, whose name so far is unknown, fell into the harbour to-night. He was taken out alive, and. sent to the Hospital, where he died shortly after. DUNEDIN, April 22. A child named Jessie Brookes died at Mosgiol to-day when about to undergo an operation for inflammation of the larynx. Dr Allan was administering chloroform when the child suddenly expired.

A labouring man named Scanlon, who was well-known in the Ashburton district, was found dead in a whare on Mr T. Langley’s farm at Dromoro yesterday. Tho deceased had been in Mr Langley’s employ. Death is supposed to have been duo to heart disease. , A railway shunter named Dobson had a narrow escape from being seriously hurt at Lyttelton yesterday. Ho was instructing a now hand in tho “ whole art and mystery of a shunter,” and stopped from the cowcatcher of a running locomotivo to turn somo points. He then crossed tho track ahead of the engino, and tried to get on to tho cowcatcher again. His foot slipped, and his leg was over-run by tho cdWcatchor. Ho was able to seize tho handrail before ho foil, and, keeping hold of it, prevented what would probably liavo been a fatal accident. Tho ongino was pulled up quickly, but tho muscles of the man’s thigh wero badly bruised. Dobson was still able to walk, and, after going to the Railway social hall, lie walked up Oxford Street to a chemist’s, and had his leg dressed.