ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 104, 23 June 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.). Auckland, June 22. | A woman named Mrs. Kate Wallace was run over by a tram in the city to-night. When picked up, she was unconscious and terribly mutilated. She was conveyed to the hospital by tho ambulance, but expired noforc arrival. i'na body of Mr. AVilliam Bray, of Or.ohunga, who disappeared on Wednesday '.the day on which no was to have ' lihdefgbife ' aif dpSralfbu), was discovered on the Maugere jc-icn this afternoon. Tao deceased had suffered acutely from his ailment, and even mul lie undergone tho operation ordered for the day on which he chsTippearad, there was every -itolili ed oi a rccuncnco of the trouble. A serious accident occnrre I at Aibect Path this afternoon in cbnnectioii with llic Coumation colc!:i itions, as a result at a big jun exploding. At 12 o’clock the A i *.i tt*a y of the N.Z. F.A., under wi.aj-ir Shorvin. took up a Ettioh on the crown of. the lull uw iring the -ay, lor th. 3y. "pose if fiijing a salute of 101 guns. Proceedings were well under way when an accident occurred in the not of firing •no of the guns, as the result of • liich thro > men ISeigeant T. Pyirdy, Bomba. - C, Best, am! Gumicr A. .Bartlett) wor- merr nr less seriously injured. Just how the accident happened no one who’witnessed the accident seemed quite in a position to say, but Gunner Bart! At, who was the most seriously injured man, bail bis str:n badly mutilated, three fingers being blown right off, ono of them falling i-tri the lap of a spectator sitting on a garden bench some distance away. Eeigeant Purdy and BombaJier West ware both,injured about the face. The injured men were .convened to a private hospital. A possible explanation of the accident vouchsafed was that the gun was being loaded, and cue broach had not boon closed prooei ly wb.m tho explosion occurred, blowing the breach out.