ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16358, 30 September 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CAISSON BURSTS.

THREE PERSONS DROWNED

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, September 28.

A compressed air caisson on the harbour works at L'Orient burst and sank in ten minutes.

Seven persons were recovered in a precarious condition and three were killed.

SINGLE WOMAN HANGS HERSELF. [Pbr Press Association.] FEILDING, September 29. On Saturdav night a single woman named Beryll Neill, thirty years of age, committed suicide by hanging at Aorangi. She was apparently elemented, and behaved strangely when last seen. THE WELLINGTON CAR ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, September 29. Dr M'Arthur, S.M., opened an inquiry to-day into the circumstances of the accident by which Conductor Breedon met his death through falling from a tram-car on the Oriental Bay Tine. Motorman Hilder in his evidence blamed the faulty construction of the lino at tho curve for the accident/, through it causing the car to jolt or " kick."

R. W. Holmes, chief engineer of the Public Works Department, said he passed the track when it was first constructed. It was properly laid, and now appeared to have been well maintairred, sufficiently to satisfy him officially, and quite safe for a car driven at a reasonable speed. The inquiry was adjourned till Monday next. -

SUICIDE AT FAIRLIE. [Per Press Association.] TIMARU, September 29. • William Hall Anderson, who some time ago retired from hotelkeeping at Fairlie, having previously conducted the Crown Hotel at Timaru, committed suicide in bed at his home at Fairlia on Sunday morning by shooting himself with a revolver. At the inquest medical evidence was given that deceased had been for some two years suffering from gastrio and cardiac troubles, with evidence of the commencement of general paralysis. : The jury found that death-was due to a wound self-inflicted while temporarily insane. Deceased was much respected in Fairlie. , GELIGNITE EXPLOSION. OTTRA WORKER INJURED. [From Our Correspondent.] OTIRA, September 29. Maurice O'Brien, a railway worker at Cass, was admitted to the Otira Hospital yesterday suffering from a badly shattered hand, caused through a premature explosion of gelignite. Owing to the bad nature of the injury the unfortunate sufferer was sent on to Greymouth this morning. MEDICAL STUDENT'S DEATH. INJURED BY FALL OF CLAY. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, September 29. . Rutherford Nichol, a fifth-year -medical student, was injured on Saturday afternoon at Knox College, througH' a fall of clay fracturing his pelvis. He died in the Hospital last night, after an operation. \ Deceased and other students were' .engaged in preparing the ground for i a fives court, when the face of the . earth collapsed. He was generally regarded as a brilliant student, promis-; ing a distinguished career. He was the eon of-tho Rer W. Nichol, o+' Hampden,