ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15826, 26 July 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Peb United Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 25. Andrew Kerr,' aged 14 years, was drowned in the river at Huntly. He was playing on a springboard, and lost his balance. He was unable to swim. The police are dragging for the body. William Massey was terribly injured yesterday by an explosion followed by fire in the Soltair Company's works at Beaumont street. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he died this morning. Soltair is a reading material. When the explosion occurred boiling tar overflowed, and two tanks containing inflammable material caught fire. Massey was thrown to the floor and lay unconscious amidst the blazing mass. Another employee (Avery),. who had a narrow escape, with two others, made a fruitless attempt to rescue Massey. The fire brigade was summoned, and got the fire under control. Massey was then dragged out. .He was covered with black liquid, and terribly burned. Examination at the hospital showed evidence of a fractured skull. There was no hope of his recovery from the first. Massey, who was married, was 28 years of age.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 25,

Late last night Ida Lena Heath Bradley, single, aged' 23, residing at Linwood, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital suffering from injuries incurred in a collision with a taxi-cab while riding a bicycle in company with her mother. The girl died in the institution. At the inquest to-day the mother stated that the girl was riding in the middle of the tramlines. Witness herself was on her wrong side of the road. There was a lamp p" each bicycle. Witness heard the taxi-cab coming behind, and got off her bicycle at a lamp-post to allow it to go past. The taxi-cab was running on the tramlines, and seemed to be going fairly fast, Witness heard a crash, as if the to had run into something, and when she went across the road she found her daughter lying on the ground. Medical evidence was given, and the inquest was adjourned till Tuesday.

The man injured at Lyttelton yesterday by a six-ton flywheel was James Rogers (not Evans), aged 42, a resident of Christr church, and a married 'man with a young family. ' ■

Hector Campbell, a jockey in the employ of Mr Ayres, died in the Wellington Hospital on Thursday morning as the result of injuries received at Trentham last Saturday (says the .Evening Post. He was holding a horse, when it threw up its head, knocking Campbell on to the ground and trampling on his chest and forehead, Campbell was removed to the hospital, suffering from severe injuries. An inquest will probably be held this morning.