ACCIDENTS A FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 16 December 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS A FATALITIES.

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Dunedin, December lo

At the inuqcst on the body of Martin Lyons Park, who was electrocuted on the reclaimed ground on Sunday afternoon, it was stated that the cause of death was paralysis of the 'heart muscles, resulting from shock. His wet hands and wet feet and wet clothing probably diverted the electric current into the body much more readily than if he had been dry. Other evidence showed that tbe wire which had fallen had been up only six' months, and the Corporation officials could not understand how is broke. A verdict of death from paralysis of the heart following shock was returiv ed.

Invercargill, December 15

John Stanley," a sailmaker on the barque Irene, from Maiden Island. was washed overboard and drowned ten days before the vessel made port. Invercargill, December 15.'

On Saturday night a young man, Edgar Armstrong, aged 19, a resident of Wyndham, was admitted to, the Southland Hospital, suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg. He had been working in a quarry, and was shovelling earth into a dray, when there was a' fall of earth.

Invercargill, December 15

Florence Josephine Wilson, aged five years, was fatally burned. She was standing before a fire, and her nightdress caught alight. She was removed to the hospital, but died on arrival.

Woodville, December 15

A fatal accident happened to a/ schoolboy this afternoon. For a long time past school children on the Masterton road have been brought to the Woodville school and taken home in Mr Somerville's brake. For a change, Mr Somerville took the children home this afternoon in a motorlorry that he had just imported. When slowing up at the end of the journey, a seven-year-old boy named Noel Smith, a stepson of Mr Roberts, a farmer, fell off. The wheel of the lorry went over his head, smashing the skull. Death was instantaneous.