ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 23 August 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TWO WOMEN KILLED. (Per Press Association.) Napier, August 22. A cab accident occurred on Milton Road to-day, resulting in the death of two women, and serious injury to another. While tho cab was coming down tho hill one of tho horses stumbled and dragged the driver off his scat and along -the road till he was forced to let go the reins. 3he horses then bolted, and at the bottom of the road ran over two women standing on tho footpath. Tho occupants of tho cab, Mrs. and Miss Ruth Anderson, visitors from Wellington, wore thrown out. One of those on the footpath, Mrs. Baker, tho wife of a local butcher, and Miss Ruth Anderson, died in the hospital an hour or two later. Tho other woman on the. footpath, Mrs. Person, had a leg broken. Tho driver escaped with a lacerated forearm. The underpart of the cab was smashed to atoms, ..«u trap of tho horses so badly injured that it had to bo destroyed.

EXPLOSION IN A MINE. Dunedin, August 22. About 1 o’clock yesterday an ex--Josimi of gas occurred in tho Kaitangata coal mine, blowing out one of the stoppings and knocking over two mon (Tlios. Carson and Hawkins). The men were stunned for tho time, but soon recovered, and wore able to walk home. Tho explosion occurred in No. 5 dip, near the main working, and there wore a number of men working in the vicinity. Tho noise was heard all over tho section, and the men stopped work and rushed, to the pit mouth. The afternoon shift refused to go on ; consequently nothing was done in tho mine yesterday afternoon. Tho spot where the explosion took place was one of those areas where had gases are known to exist. Tho place was “stopped up” to keep gases in. There was a blow-out, however, and the gas ignited. The occurrence, following on too death of Joseph Carson last Thursday, the death of Win. McGhee from a similar cause in May, and a chapter of minor accidents, has caused many miners to become “seared,” and yesterday, after tho explosion, a number declared their intention of seeking employment elsewhere.