ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 89, 10 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

THE INJURED FIREMAN.

(Per Press Association.) Timaru, December 9. Lyons, the fireman who fell <-ff the train and through the Otaio Bridge, still lies in a precarious condition at the hospital. FOUND DROWNED. Nelson, December 9. The body of a seaman named Kaspar Anderson was found floating in tiio harbour this afternoon. Deceased was a member of the crew of the scow Southern Isles, and had been missing for some clays. He was a native of Norway, and about thirty years of age. DROWNED WHILST BATHING. Hastings, December 9. The body of John Cooper, aged 25, unmarried, drowned whilst bathing in the Tukituki River, near Clive Grange on Sunday afternoon, was recovered to-day. Cooper was unable to swim. He entered the river with wings, where the water was fourteen feet deep. The wings got adrift and Cooper sank. BLINDED BY A GOLF BALL. Christchurch, December 9. A child of Melling, caretaker of the Shirley golf links, was to-day peeling the rubber from the outer case of a golf ball, and got down to the centre, when ir burst, and discharged some white semi-solid substance into the right eye, destroying the sight. A SUDDEN DEATH. . JU. Masterton, December 9. Mr. Richmond Beetham, - formerly Stipendiary Magistrate at Napier. Timaru, and Christchurch, died sudnoly to-night from heart failure at the age of 76. He had been fishing all day, and was walking into the garden with Mr. William Beetham, his brother, when he suddenly fell back and expired without uttering a word.

THE INEVITABLE PEA-RIFLE. Invercargill, December 9. A youth named Sydney Glover, of Taramoa, left a loaded pea-rifle in a barn, and, while closing the door, the charge exploded and the bullet, of the expanding type, passed through Glover’s abdomen and lodged in his liver. His condition is dangerous. PAWELKA SHOT. ■4 . 1, Christchurch, December 9. Yesterday three youths, named. Moses Pawelka (aged 19), his In other Michael (two years younger), and William Fix (aged about seventeen) Vent pig-shooting on the hills at the'book of the White Rock Station, and the first-named was accidentally shot dead Particulars of the accident are m°agro, but it seems that t)ie deceased lii-cd at a pig, wounding it, - aTid stepped aside for Fix to take a shot. As ne was about to fire, Fix slipped, and foe charge lodged in deceased’s back, rather above the right hip. umct ,onannn»a->ii ACCIDENT IN A FOUNDRY. Dannevirke, December 10. A youth named Jeffrey Herman, an apprentice at Collett’s * foundry, was putting dressing bn a belt on a macihne. when bis right arm was taken round the pulley, the elbow being dislocated and his arm broken near the ‘shoulder. Herman had a narrow escape from death.

DROWNED AT PIPIRIKI. Taihape, December 10. A drowning fatality occurred at Pipiriki last evening, Gerald Thomas, a schoolmaster, and his son and another, boy named Arthur Clemence being the victims. Two bodies have been recovered. No details are available. It seems that several boys were bathing. One, Thomas, son of the schoolmaster, got out of his depth —his father, and a man named Clements wen to his assistance, and ail three were drowned. ( A WOMAN’S SUICIDE. Auckland, December 10. Margarcta Langsford, aged 24, wife of Lane Langsford, residing at Birkenhead, committed suicide last night. She stood facing a mirror with her baby in her arms. She slashed her throat with a razor from car to ear, and carried the child in her arm« to her mother’s house next door, wnere she fell into her mother’s arms, and died a few minutes later. She had been strange in her behaviour for some time.

FARMER KILLED. An accident, attended with fatal consequences, happened on the Kelly Road on Saturday, resulting in the death in the New Plymouth Hospital of a farmer named Rudolph Schexbler (states to-day’s ‘Daily News’). The deceased was seen by a labourer named Roberts, driving to the creamery on the Kelly Road, and followed along about ten minutes afterwards, found Scheibler lying on the road. Scheibler was able to converse, and when asked by Roberts how the acc' ■ dent occurred, he said he was driving along, when the wheel of the cart went into a rut, precipitating him oat of the cart. He told Roberts that his back “was very bad.” It is presumed that the man was standing up in the cart, and when the wheel entered the rut the sudden jerk threw him out. Ho passed away shortly after admission to the hospital. The deceased lived by himself, and Roberts is the only man who appears to have known liim. He was a married n an, but the whereabouts of his wife, or whether he has any other relatives, is not known.

A six-year-old boy named Richards lies in the Ballarat (Victoria) Hospital suffering from a fractured thigh and other injuries received through jumping a distance of 30ft. from the limb of a tree, whither he had climbed to search a bird’s nest (says the Sydney correspondent of the Xew Zealand Herald). One of his companions, all of whom remained at the foot of the tree, called out: “You can’t jump to the ground.” The lad replied : “Can’t I.” Accepting the challenge, he jumped from h's lofty perch, and fell to the ground with much force, breaking his thigh, and also receiving minor injuries. The boy was taken to his home, and was subsequently removed to the hospital. The surgeons at the institution state that the sufferer, in jumping from such a he'ghr had a narrow escape from deata.