ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Southland Times, Issue 16889, 14 November 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

[By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. ] LONDON, November 12. By an explosion of flour dust the Primrose Mills at Glasgow were wrecked and four persons were killed and seven injured, two of the latter being In a critical condition.; (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 13. Evidence given a);, tljie. inquest concerning the death of Maggie Gallaher, a single woman aged 37, shewed that the woman fell off a moving tram' to Richmond .on .Thursday night; but no .adequate explanation was forthcoming of her fall. ■ Halfway between two stopping places she stood up suddenly without saying anything and fell backwards to the road. A verdict of accidental death was returned. DUNEDIN, November 13. Patrick Coakley. 92 an Inmate of the mental asylum at Wai'tati, '"wan-dered-thereform on September 24. His body’has been found in the bush two miles away from the institution. CHRISTCHURCH, November 13. Charles Cress, a jockey from Hastings, died at the hospital.’ At an inquest held this afternoon a verdict was returned that death was due to gastro-enteritis. William Lurch, a young man employed at Aulsebrook's biscuit factory, was killed by being caught in a belt of the engine. He was whirled round a pulley and terribly injured. Mr T. Garrick, Invercargill representative of the Massey-Harris Com-' pany, was the victim of a trap accident on the North Road yesterday. He was driving into town in a gig hired from Messrs Heads and Hill, and through a misadventure collided with a milk cart opposite the Avenal Butchery. Mr Carrick’s horse bolted, and the occupant of the trap was thrown but on to the road. The horse galloped wildly into town and pulled up in front of Messrs Heads’ and Hill’s livery stables, Mr Garrick was picked up in an unconscious condition, and was-’ taken to the hospital in one iOf the Corporation drays. It was learned on enquiry last night that Mr Garrick had been badly bruised. He was in a semi-conscious condition and was suffering a good deal of pain, but it was not expected that his injuries would be of a serious nature.