ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15333, 16 June 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MINING ACCIDENT. THREE RESCUERS KILLED. United Press Association—By Eleciiio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 14. Three miners were killed at Tyldesley, in Lancashire, while attempting to rescue a fellow workman who was buried by the debris from a fallen roof. [Pep. Press Association.] AUCKLAND. June 15. Mrs Eliza M’Cullagli, aged sixtynine, a resident of Kingslaud, died suddenly while in conversation with her two daughters A post-mortem examination and an inquest will be necessary to determine the cause. The seven-months-old child of Mrs E. Woodward, of Frankton, was found dead in bed. The child was left in* a sitting position by its mother, and during her absence it fell forward and its face was buried in the bedclothes. fPKii Press Association.] INVERCARGILL. Juno 15. The body cast ashore at Sandy Point bears letters suggesting that the name is Findlay S. Murchison, of Waikaia. The features are unrecognisable. Inquiries are being made at Waikaia. On Tuesday afternoon, near Lorni* Farm, a man named Thomas Jamieson was seen to fall from a drav. " He was picked pp, but died on his way to tho hospital. Yesterday afternoon, about 3.30 o’clock, a boy named Higgs, five years of age, who was going home from school, was struck by a tram-car near' Stanmore Road. It appears that the child was crossing Worcester Street and ran directly' in front of the car. He was caught on the fender, and his head was crushed between tho fender and the body of the car. Some neoplo present at once conveyed the hoy' to the Hospital, where an operation was performed. Tho injury was' of a serious nature, but the child was reported to be progressing favourably last evening. Mr V. G. Day, S.M., held an inquiry at Woodbury yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of Walter Harris, who was killed on the previous day. Evidence was given that the deceased was employed on a threshingmill which was travelling to 'Geraldine to engage in clover-shelling. A sheepdrover who witnessed the accident stated that he saw deceased run along the off-side of the train of trucks, and a few seconds later lie saw something fall which ho took to be a full sack. On reaching the spot he found tho deceased lying dead, the wheels of one of tho trucks having evidently passed over him. Dr Mill stated that the injuries must have caused instantaneous death. A verdict was returned that deceased' met his death by being run 'over by a vehicle drawn by a traction engine.