ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16074, 31 October 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACCIDENT IN A MINE. United Press Association—Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . (Reoeived October 31. 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 30. Four men were timbering in the 500 ft level in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine when the. filling collapsed.. Three, named Leydon, Fraser and Martin, were buried. Tho fourth was injured. The Vrork of recovering the bodies, which is dangerous, is proceeding. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 30. The body of_ Angus Gordon, ,a seafaring man, who had been working on a fishing boat, was found lying across the lines at the railway goods yard late last night. The head was shockingly mutilated and one foot' was missing. Tho clothing was cut to pieces. HA WEE A, October 30. Jean M’Cracken, aged twenty-two, met with an accident while cycling down a hill on Sunday when she lost control of her machine. Tho injuries sustained in tho fall were at first not considered serious, hut on Tuesday afternoon internal complications supervened and sho died to-day. A pathetic part of tho occurrence is that Miss. M’Cracken was to have been married to-day. Yesterday morning the infant son of Mr F. H. Gobbe, of Cox Street, Ashburton, was drowned in a tub of water. The boy._ who was fifteen months old, was playing at the back door, and.it is assumed that he. stood on a round block Of wood near the tub. and that it rolled, causing him to fall across the edge of the tub with his head in the water. An inquest was hold before the coroner, Mr Y. G. Day, who after hearing tho evidence c.f tho child’s grandmother and of Dr Lyon, ad.journ■ed tho inquiry till ten o’clock on Friday morning. Shortly before eleven o’clock last night a man named Ralph Anderson, while engaged in shunting on No. 6 wharf at Lyttelton, fell from an engine’s cowcatcher and had a foot badly bruised. He was attended at the casualty ward.