ACCIDENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7542, 20 April 1886, Page 3

ACCIDENTS.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR ASHBURTON. The Ashburton correspondent of the Christurch Press telegraphed on Sunday as folvs :—" A shocking accident occurred at heatstone yesterday, resulting in the death im burning of Barbara Ann Shearer, six years age, daughter of Mr John Shearer, farmer. : Shearer had been burning some straw stacks ar his house on Friday about 10 o'clock On turday morning some of Mr Shearer's children pear to have gone out to have a look at the 11 smouldering straw stack, and the little girl rbara fell down amongst the burning ashes, ir brother Peter, a lad 10 years of age, ran to r assistance, dragged her from the fire, and maged to tear her burning clothes off her; t, however, till the po6r little child had been :ribly burned about the lower part of the hody. saring screams, Mrs Shearer ran out, and just this time a Mr Wilson happened to be ising in his trai>. The child was conveyed ih all possible speed to Ashburton and :en to the house of Mr Andrews, and Dr 3vor and Dr Leahy were quickly in attenlce, but the child was so badly burned that

! died at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Blr aarer was away in Ashburtou when the ident occurred, and on his way home in the ernoon he met Mr Wilson driving the terribly fering little child to town to seek medical istance.

DROWNED IN A WATEBirOLE. L boy named Charles Adolphus Boyer, aged ht years past, was drowned in a watereat Grassmere on Saturday afternoon. The (says the Southland Times) and his brother in, aged 10, were sent by their mother for le firewood, and while on the errand Charles Iressed and went into the waterhole for a he. His brother did not follow his example, : went away for a short distance. On timing he saw the body of Charles rise to surface and then sink again. The body did i reappear, and the frightened boy ran home I told his mother what had occurred. Mrs yer speedily obtained the assistance of Mr yin {near whose place the hole is lated) and his son, and the body of the untiumte little fellow was recovered.

The Christchurch Press reports that a remarkably narrow escape from what might have been a very serious accident occurred ou the bumuer road on Sunday afternoon. It appears tnat afour-in-hend drag and a three-horse drag, flnven by Messrs Hayward and Barns respectively, left f Ol . Sunnier at 2 p.m., tilled by passengers. After .starting it seems that ±>urns kept ahead, and was in that position after rounding the bend of the road close to Mr irtouck s residence. Here Hayward again tried to pass, but owing to the narrowness of the road was unable'to do so, and the off wheels were pulled on the stones forming the sea wall, resulting i v the overturn of his drag. As n ~ ses were going at a good rate, all the occupants of the drag were violently thrown out, and, unfortunately, most of them fell on broken metal. Those who were unhurt immediately gave help to the others, but how so many escaped witl: but trifling injury is a marvel. Mr ant; Mrs Appleby and boy, Mr and Mrs Pine and four children, were amongst the occupants of the drag, but all escaped injury save Master Pine, who got an ugly cut on the forehead. Mr Hayward was the only one who met with serious injury, and he," unfortunately, has a broken thigh and two breaks in the left arm. One passenger got his ankle dislocated, another severely bruised about the le^s and body, and another some contusions on the' head and face. The fore part of the drag was completely wrecked. The narrow escape of the passengers from serious injury, and perhaps great loss of life, may be judged from the fact that the wheel was only Sin from the edge of the sea wall, and as the tide was full in and there are a number of boulders close up, the chance oi escape without serious injury would have beer slight. Mr Hayward was removed to his re.si. deuce at Sumner, where his arm was set b\ Dr Hunt; but the thigh is a more serious in jury and further medical aid was called in

(Pee United Peess Association.) . .„ , ' Blenheim, April 19. _ A mill hand named Whittington Lane, residing at Kaituna, was accidentally shot yesterday morning when getting into a boat at Havelock to go duck-shooting. His companion, named Henry Dorreen, was handling a gun, when the charge went off and lodged in-Lane's groin He was put m a trap, which started for Blenheim Hospital, but Lane died when seven miles on the road. An inquest will be held. Deceased, who was 30 years old, leaves a wife and two young children.

v . . , -Wellington, April 19. Yesterday afternoon a man named John Colvey, in the employ of Mr J. Orr, Rangitira, met with an accident that has since proved fatal. Deceased, with another man, left Ormond for the Rangitira station, and was nding a horse and leading another. It appears that deceased's mate crossed the Rangitira River first, and after going some distance noticed that Colvey was not .following. On returning he found deceased in the river, havinnevidently been dragged from off the horse he was riding by the one he was leading. Assistance was at once procured, and Colvey was taken to the station, where he expired at 6 o'clock this morning It is supposed that one of the horses trod on deceased, as he complained of pain internally. v