ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15899, 10 April 1912, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LAUNCH CAPSIZED. DISASTER AT TANGIER. United Press Association—By Electric TelegTnph—Copyright. LONDON, April 8. A Tangier message says that the capsizing of a launch drowned two children of an official belonging to the French legation, an English governess, and two nurses". The absence of landing facilities is attributed to the jealousy of the Powers, and renders the harbour a death-trap. [Per Press Association'.] AUCKLAND, April 9. Mr William H. Trail, aged eightyfour, a resident of Waihi, fell on the deck of a ferry steamer while travelling to Devonport. When picked up he was dead. Dr A. O. Purchas had a very narrow escape from being killed this evening, when his motor-car was smashed to fragments through being pinned between two tramcars in Manukau Road, Parnell. He was trying to cross the rails when a downward tram struck the motor, hurling it against ,an upcoming car and reducing it to fragments. The doctor had a most miraculous escape, coming off w-ith a severe shaking arid some cuts from flying fragments of glass. HAMILTON, April 9. Ernest Richard Dennison, a railway porter, twenty-seven years of age, was drowned while swimming in the lake yesterday. Dennison_dived from a punt, splashed, and then sank. The body was recovered an hour and a half later. Deceased loaves a wife and a young child. "WELLINGTON, April 9. At the inquest on William Maher, aged sixty-seven, an old 1 age pensioner who fell down some stops in Courtenay Place on March 30, a verdict was returned that death was due to hypostatic pneumonia.

INVERCARGILL; April 9. A man named Thomas Dougherty, a labourer, fifty years of- age, was walking with a companion across the railway yard at Wyndham on Monday evening, when he was struck by a shunting engine and killed.

. . DUNEDIN, April 9. William Nesbitt, a married man, forty-five years of age, residing in Anderston Road, Kaikorai, met with a fatal accident while returning'home by the 9.20 p.m. car from the Octagon. Ho travelled to High Street, where the electric car to Maori Hill intersects, and walked on the leiVliand side of the track as far a 6 the loop, where tho fatality happened. Evidently he stood on the edge of the kerbing, and lurched inwards as the car approached. He struck the front portion, missing the lifeguard, and -fell under the car. the wheels passing over both, legs, and the lower portion of his body. He was dreadfully injured, and death was instantaneous. The motorman, Dredge, says that no one saw deceased till he appeared right in front, of the ear, which could not bo drawn up in time. At tho inquest the coroner returned a verdict that death was duo to deceased, while under the influence of liquor, being run over by a tram, and that no blams was attachab'e to anyone. INVERCARGILL, April 9. Whilst going in a cutter from the Bluff to Stewart Island 'on Monday evening, a man named Emil Andersen was washed overboard and drowned. His companions, two brothers named Silvester, had the vessel hovc-to, and a search was made for the missing man. Deceased resided on the cutter, and it is believed he was unmarried. It is liot known whether lie had anv relatives in the dominion. .' •'