ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15736, 12 April 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pee United Pbess Association.)

:" - . HASTINGS, April 11. A motor car which was driven by Miss Russell, a daughter of' Sir William Russell, collided near Stoneycroft with a spring cart driven by Mr John Hassett. Both were thrown out, and by a strange coincidence each sustained a broken arm. Mr lliissctt was also severely cut on the head ":•' WELLINGTON, April 11. ' Neil Lindsay, aged 43. a seaman,. died at the hospital as the result of a fall from a r .-bedroom window.

•GREY-MOUTH, April 11. • Ernest Gunn, a waterside worker, marrie'd, and about 45 years of age, while loading on the Taviuni, fell down the hoid. He was removed to the hospital. His condition is serious, but the full extent of his injuries is not yet known.

_A well known hansom cab driver named Edwin Bektie, met with' an accident last night. As ho was driving down Jones street (off - Princes street south) his horse stumbled, a,nd he was.thrown from the high seat of '/lis cab. .He was picked up in a dazed condition and taken by means of ttji;' ambulance to the Hospital, where it was found that he was badly cut about the head. ,:Two nasty accidents are recorded by the' Wyndham Herald. .At Mataura Island on Wednesday an elderly man named John Sole, employed on M'lntosh's mill, was riding on the fore-carriage as the mill was travelling along the road. The kitfg-bolt bent, and the weight of the mill came down on his leg, inflicting a wound in his calf eight or ton inches long and tearing and crushing the muscles. The l>olt crushed the ankle, causing a compound fracture. On Tuesday:, when rc- ■ turning in his dray from Wyndham, Mr Henry O'Neill, of Mcnzies Ferry, gave a neighbour a "lift." At his own corner,' tiro neighbour got out, and in handing out a bag Mr O'Neill overbalanced through the horse moving and the wheel dropping into a rut. The consequence was that he fell between the shaft and the wheel, which passed over his head, breaking his jaw. In the absence of Dr Baird, Dn Rogers was summoned from Gore, and attended to Mr O'Neill's injuries, Mr Winning (chemist) in the meantime having rendered first aid. Mr O'Neill afterwards proceeded to the Invercargill hosrutal.