ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A NARROW ESCAPE. The Patea Press says: Two of the co-operative workers in the Makakaho district had a very narrow escape a day or two ago whilst engaged in blasting operations on the Makakaho road. It appears that one of them had just fipished tamping a charge in a face of rock and had lit the fuse when he very carelessly threw the match down in a 221 b keg of blasting powder with a result that can be, imagined. His mate, who was a few yards away, on hearing the report rushed up and found his companion lying on tlie ground with his singlet burnt off him and his head and face badly scorched. Just then he happened to notice the fuse hissing in the face of the rock close by, and ho had barely time to drag his injured companion to a place of safety when the charge went off, and the whole of the rock came down where the pair had been standing a few moments before. The sufferer is now progressing as favourably as can be expected.

FOUND BROWNED. , (Per Press Association. - ) Phlmerston N., March 12. The body of a man about sft. lOin was found floating in the Manawatu Hirer below Palmerston to-day by a trout fisher. It had apparently been in the water a very long time, and the features were quite unrecognisable. No one has been missed from the district. FATAL FALL FROM A CART. Wellington. March 12. Percy Calcinai, aged 20, who fell from a grocery cart in Fpper Dixon Street last Thursday, fractured his skull, and died in the hospital to-day.