ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145084, 8 September 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCIDENT WITH SULPHURIC ACID. ' ' PUB PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND,' Sepit.7., While waterside workers ' were handling drums of- sulphuric acid, oil* the steamer Monowai to-night, one_ of tho drums hurst at the hung, throwing the acid in a stream for about twenty feet. Five of tho watersidors 1 whowere endeavouring fo avoid the fumes dipped to the deck, as did also a number of others who rushed to their 'assistance. As a result - thirteen. men were burned, by the acid, eighty being now inmates of the hospital, while five wore treated as outpatients. Tho men in the hospital were burned about the body, five seriously. -They unhide Chief-Officer M'Lean, of the Monowai, the remainder being waterside woefcem. M‘Leau fe not seriously injured; - 93» most seriously injured are Couita, single man, and Falkner, who-ia married. DETAILS-OE MEN INJURE®. AUCKLAND, Sept. ;8. Bv the explosion of sulphuric heid o# the "Monowai, in addition to G. Falknef and J. Coutts, who were very seriously injured,’the victims included G. Jones (42), married, injuries to face and- one eye, both aims, back, thigh and : right leg; J. Anderson (69), married, ■' injuries to face and both eyes; fi- Barnes (SO), married, injuries to face and'both eyes. Tho other three, J. Jones, -ft. Mitchell and M’Lean (chief offioa- of the Monowai) were slightly 'injured. Five men sustained minor injuries. CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR. AUCKLAND, Sept. 7. A boy named Leonard Toole, aged five, was knocked down by "a mo torcar at Newmarket to-night and died' almost immediately.