ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6232, 11 June 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

KILLED BY A TRAM-CAR. AN AUCKLAND MISHAP. PRESS ASSOCIATTOV AUCKLAND, June 10. A terrible fatality occurred in the city to-night, tho victim being Harry Elder, about forty years old. He was a painter, and resided at Fi'eeman J s Bay. It is believed Elder was a pasengcr by the tram-car which ran over him, and that he got off at the corner of Victoria and Nelson streets, where the accident occurred. Ho was knocked down and dragged about twenty yards. When extricated—a work that took about fifteen minutes—tho body was terribly mutilated. A pathetic incident was that a son of tho victim, finite unconscious that the injured man Was .his father, assisted to extricate the dead body. A BABY KILLED. NAPIER, Juno 10. A fatal trap accident occurred at Petano this evening. A trap containing two married ladies named Marsh:.... ..nd tho infant son of one of them was proceeding through a cutting, when the horse attached to the trap commenced kicking, with the result that the vehicle was capsized, and tho occupants thrown out, Tho baby was killed instantaneously, his skull being fractured. Tho child was ten months old. FIVE PERSONS THROWN FROM A BUGGY.

EKETAHUNA, June 10. ! A serious buggy accident occurred at Tiraumea yesterday. •As Mrs Collins, Mrs Holmes, Miss Gilbert, the liev. McLean, and servant were returning homo the horses bolted, and commenced kicking. The road- being rough, the occupants were precipitated from the vehicle. Mrs Holmes -was picked up unconscious, but after artificial respiration had been resorted to, came round. The driver (Hansen) was also rendered unconscious, and still remains so. Ho is under medical attendance. The other occupants were more or less shaken and bruised. I FOOTBALLER INJURED. , DUNEDIN,' June 10. "Eastus” Adams, the crack ’Varsity centre, came into collision with Given. Alhambra’s captain, on Saturday, and sustained injuries that will prevent his again playing football. SUDDEN DEATH OF A SURVEYOR. PAHIATUA. June 10. A man named John Beaufort, surveyor, was found" by two men at the foot of a staircase about ten o’clock on Saturday night. Ho had evidently fallen down the stairs. The man was conveyed to the hospital, and a doctor summoned, but Beaufort died at eight o’clock on Sunday morning. Deceased leaves three grown-up sons here, a wife and two children being in America, and a daughter in Australia. BURNED TO DEATH. CAMBRIDGE, June 10. The four-year-old son of George Price, of ICarapiro, settler, was burned to death through his clothes catching fire while the parents were absent milking. WANGANUI, Jnne 10., A trap accident occurred in: Victoria avenue this afternoon, resulting in 1 serious injury to an elderly settler. Mr Samuel Wilson, a resident of Mars Hill. As, tho. result of a collision he was thrown out of a trap. At a late hour this evening he had not recovered consciousness. John Burrowo, a seaman, thirty-two years of age, residing, in Herbert street, slipped on the deck of the Blenheim and fractured his elbow. Ho was admitted to the hospital. A telegraph messenger named F. Yates,, fifteen years of age, while cycling down Lambton, Quay yesterday afternoon, was knocked down by a cart and received severe outs on the leg and forehead. Ho was taken to the hospital. Some timber fell on Walter Dredge, who -was working in tho Manawatu railway yard yesterday, and broke the small bone of one of his legs.