ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15704, 25 August 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, August 23.

It is reported from Matadi, in the Congo Free State, that while the German steamer Edea was unloading gunpowder an explosion killed three whites, including one of the ship’s officers, and ten natives. FROZEN TO DEATH. A Now York message says that two tourists, a Mr Skinner and his wife, were frozen to death on the summit of Pike’s Peak. It is believed that they were overtaken by a storm and lost their way. RAILWAY COLLISION. BUDAPEST, August 24. An express, en route for Ivassan, collided with another train. Six persons were killed and ten severely injured. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 24. Thomas Brooking, fifty-five years of age, who had been suffering from insomnia, died at Mangere last night, it is supposed from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid. Brooking was a recent arrival from Taranaki.

WAIHT, August 24. A miner named Henry Bullock t working at the Grand Junction Mine, received terrible injuries to his head and face and other parts of his body as a result of an explosion. Bullock was using a pick and struck au unexploded charge in a hole. He is not expected to reoover.

W ELLINGTON, August 24. Joseph W. Braithwaite, who has been in business in Wellington as an auctioneer for the past three years, shot himself in the side of the head at about nine o’clock this morning. He died in the hospital shortly before noon. The tragedy occurred in his own auction mart in Manners Street, next to tho Opera House. The deceased, who was a married man with a family, had been depressed of late. He was formerly the clerk of the Johnscnvill# Town Board, and contested the Wellington Suburbs seat at the last general election.

An accident happened to a young man named Bradford at Temuka on Tuesday. While ploughing at Mr F. Smith’s farm, Ep worth., something* went wrong with the chains or harness: and while he was putting them straight the horses started and he was knocked down, and the coulter wheel of the plough cut a gash under tha left . arm. He was taken to a private hospital, where he was medically attended. It will be several days . before the precise extent of his injuries can he ascertained.