ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

YOUNG MINER KILLED.

ANOTHER'S LUCKY ESCAPE. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hokitika, Monday. A single man named Max Orterriann. aged 25. w M killed in the Ross Goldtields mine on Saturday night. While he was engaged timbering a crosscut drive a heavy fall of quartz took place, om. f >t-iv burying him. It took five h«»i.rs to recover the body. His mate had a fortunate escape from a similar fate, being thrown to safety by the tailing timers. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. FALL OVER A CUTTING. •KT TELEGRAPH. — rRESS ASSOCIATION'.? Hastings, Monday. Whilst motorcycling along Ocean Be;i. h Road yesterday, Stanley Robert Pitt, son of Mr. Thomas Pitt, of Benoni, Hastings, went over a cutting, and struck p. tree. Ho was rendered unconscious, and precipitated into Maraetoara River, where ins body was found some time liter. This is the third son Mr. Pitt has 1 ■■?: during the last two years. One was killed in the landing at the Dardanelles. DEATH UNDE2 OPERATION. YOUNG WOMAN EXPIRES. [BY TLLEGRAFH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dtnedin. Monday. Florence Hurndell, aged 18, died suddenly at ralmerston on Saturday while undergoing an operation for septic throat. The evidence a't the inquest showed that deceased had been operated on previously fur appendicitis, and had not been in good health since. Saturday's operation was fir violent septic throat. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned. A FATAL SEIZURE. YOUNG MAN DIES SUDDENLY. [BX TELEGRAPH.—rRESS ASSOCIATION-} A.SHBEB.ION, Monday. John Topping. 20 years, of ajre, only sun of Mr. Andrew Topping, farmer at Elgin, near Ashburton, while in a paddock this morning was suddenly taken with some kind of seizure. He became blue in the face, ami fell over the side of the trap in which he was sitting. A doctor was immediately summoned from Ashburton, but on arrival found life extinct.