ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 17348, 20 May 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. i t*y T« tegraph. Press Assn,bo fon.--Copyright )■ NEW VoRK. May Bb Received May ID, I 1.2 a p.m. Arthur Cdvill, the Australian swimmer, di-Ved in a sack from a bridge over the Lewis River at .Seattle. He struck a buoy, and was injured. and nearly drowned. He was taken to the hospital and is in a serious condition. A SAP AFFAIR. (Per United Press .usocialion.) 11A W l-i RA. May Ilb A slioollng acciden l occurred at Malapu yesterday. resulting in the dentil of Lucy Ann Pick, aged "o tears. It appears - thut a- younger brother bad been cleaning a g.uii and placed two eurtridges in the breech. It ;iccidentally exploded. tlir- charge 1 entering the girl's arm and sale. Her arm was amputated in the hope of saving her life, but site died in the evening. A DETONATOR EXPLODES. ACt 'l-CLAN P. May lib The (lunger of allowing detonators within reach of children was instanced on Saturday when a small hoy. Laurie Martin, sustained serious injuries to his hand as the result of trying to scrape the contents out of a detonator found in the street hy a companion, and tltps causing an explosion. There have been several cases of a like -nature recently, and in consequence Martin's mother has written tu his schoolmaster suggesting that me danger of detonators might he pointed out to Hie children. SERUM'S TRAP ACC'IPF.NT. NELSON, May lib A serious trap accident occurred at Wakefield this morning, in consequence of a horse bolting and causing the trap Ik collide with a post. The occupant, Mrs W. 11. Brooks; wife of a settler, was thrown mu. and sustained injuries from which she is not expected to recover. AGED MAN INHERED. AUCKLAND. May 19. Charles Edward Bush, aged S)5 years, was knocked down by a call in Newmarket on Sunday niglii. and removed to the hospital in a critical condition. LABOURER KILLED. , WELLINGTON. May 19. Donald Cameron, aged employed on road formation at Orangp Rongo. was killed on Saturday by a fall of earth. Another man named Mit"-tors - was also covered by the fall, but was extricated uninjured, A COLLISION. Then- was a collision in the vicinity of the Lec-t street and Dee street intersection last evening between a taxi-cab. No. 4. belonging to the Invercargill TaxiCab Company, and a De Dion car, belonging to Messrs Anderson Bros., fellmongers, of Waikiwi. The taxi was coining down from the North Road as the motor emerged on to the maid thoroughfare front Leet street. To the west of .Hie tram line a collision occurred. as a result of which the front axle of the De Dion was broken and the right hand wheel knocked about. The mudguard on the left hand side of tlie taifi was damaged, the front wheel was dented and the front axle bent. Neither of the cars was able to proceed further, and both had to be removed.