ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9540, 17 June 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SERIOUS BURNING ACCIDENT.

WOMAN'S TRYING EXPERIENCE,

As the result of a burning accident Mrs Alice Burnott, wife of Mr T. Burnet, a blacksmith, residing in Isewtoil road, Auckland, was admitted to the hospital oil Thursday morning, where she now lies in a critical condition, On the previous evening Mrs Burnett fell asleep while sitting in front of the fire, She awoke later to iiiid that her clothes had caught on fire, and rushed into the street enveloped in a mats of flames. Seeing the woman's plight a neighbour, Mr E. Bruce, ran out with a blanket, with which he succeeded in smothering the flames. As a result of tho accident Mrs Burnett, who is only 27.years of age, was badly burned from the waist downwards. At the time of the accident the only other occupants of the house were Mrs | Burnett's three children, her husband being out. Inquiries made at the hospital showed that the sufferer had rallied a little, although the'shock, to her system was very severe. . CHILD KILLED BY FALLING FROM TRAIN. iI'EB Pnm AKHnnuTTON I ■ GISBORNE, June IG. A shocking fatality occurred this, evening at Te Ivaraka railway et'atiori. 7 A little girl, Norma Phillips, aged 3J years, with her mother,;boarded the train at Te Ivaraka. Just prior to the train moving off Mrs Phillips rushed out of the-'carriage and 011 to the platform to recover a parcel which she' had forgotten. Her little; daughter followed, and just reached the outer platform of the carriage when the train, commenced to move.; The child was thrown out on to theopermaiient way on'the outside of the -train., and . the wheels passed over her neck,; almost severing the head i'roiii the body. The child's mother was almost frantic,, with grief. The father recently ..drew';, it Government section ai Oroko and the family was about to make, it their home. INJURED BY A TRAM. AUCKLAND. June IG. .' James Harrison and 'William. Lynch .; were standing talking on the tram line ■.. in AYellesley street, when a car coming down the hill ran into them. Both men were, removed to the hospital. j Harrison is suffering frpnv!a : -l)rpke>k leg and severe internal injuries. Lynch was badly cut about, but in his case serious results are not anticipated/ WHARF LUMPER KILEEL)?; ,'W (TIRISTCIIIJRCII, June 15. Wm. Brewer, aged 35, a lumper on ■ l.iie wharves, was killed while wo):ld'ng ; o'iV'-J; tho coal steamer Ngatoro at kHfelfoni; '■ to-day. A big lump of coal was knocked::; out of a basket and struck Brewer on the head, fracturing the skull, ' . BOY'S FATAL FALL OYER A CLIFF. MASTKRfON. June 16. Sydney Bertram Johanscn, 12 years.of age, fell over a cliff 100 feet ..•Jefe'pl.flfe: " Mi. Bruce, near Mastorton. this morning. His body struck a cliff at tho bottom and rolled into the Ruamaluinga rivet;, .where: ■ it. was subsequently recovered, The.'baso.. of the skull was fractured and oilier terrible injuries were sustained, v.;