ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 3 November 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(■United Press Association.) HOKITIKA-, Nov. 2. A. young man named Chantaloup, an electrician, employed at the Ross Goldfields mine, went "out prospecting at daylight on Sunday morning, taking a slasher to cut a. track. He arrived at the .Ross Hospital at 7 a.fr. in a fainting condition with ibis left hand almost severed from the wrist, caused by a mishap with the slasher. His condition is serious owing to the great- loss of ■blood. Wellington, Nov. 2. The unidentified body of a man, apparently about 40 years of age, was found to-day amongst some bushes beside the rail-way track • between Belmont and Ha vward's.stations. The man •had apparently been dead three or four weeks. INVERCARGILL- Nov. 2. William Hinckley, a farmer of Brown's placed some detonator caps on a tree stun-p. After a while he forgot about them, and commenced to chop the stump, when an explosion followed, which broke the head of the axe in two, and seriouslv damaged Hinckley about the face and eves. An operation was performed at the Southland Hospital to-day. and he is progressing satisfactorily. His escape must be considered as. marvellous.