ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9489, 12 May 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

An accident occurred at .Messrs Bourke and sons'e manure works at Mangatera (Danuerirke) en Friday. by which a man named Bourke was incapacitated, sustaining painful injuries. He was screwing • down a bolt of the digester when a corner of the lid cracked. The steam rushed out, striking him in the face, and causing him to fall. This probably was his salvation as. though he is very badly scalded about the f;;ee. his eyesight has not been impaired.

COAL TRIMMER'S DEATH

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At, the inquest this moraine into the death of Arthur Heading, aged 45. of London, a coal trimmer of the s.s. Zealandic. the evidence showed that on Thursday when descending to the stokehold he. had nearly reached the bottom of the ladders when he fell, striking the edge -of the iron door with his head and sustaining such injury to the skull and brain tin. he died in the hospital on Friday. A v< diet of accidental death was returned. Deceased is stated to have had some drink before going down, and the ladder was said to have been dangerously glippery.i

AN A(Am\\TAXT DROWNED

INVERCARGILL. May 12

0. M. Cochrane, an accountant, aged 42. was drowned in the New River, on Sunday afternoon through a boat capsizing. His companion, ('-ceil Hallett. made a plucky effort to rescue him. and got him ashore, hut life was extinct.

DROWNED IN THE WANGANUI RIVER.

WANGANUI. Mav 12

A young man Spencer Abbott, aged 21. a fireman on the river steamer Wairua, fell overboard on Saturday and Was drowned about 14 miles above Pipiriki. There was a flood in the river at the time. C'HRISTCHI'RC.H. May 12.

Alexander 0. Burnett, lately groom at a local stables, was found dead at Avonside yesterday with a ballet wound in hishoa<l and a revolver by his side.