ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12354, 22 April 1904, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

* OVERWHELMED by AN . yi'AVALANCHE'. - .

Q»» __ United Press Association—Per Electric ' '■ i- Telegraph—Copyright. jtecoiveu 9.20 a.m.,"' April 21st. . ROME, April 20. An avalanche at Pragelato, Turin, buried « -number of huts containing a hundred miners. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 21. Miss Annie Jane 1 Caleywas knocked down by a trtinicnr and injured while crossing HoJjjpn iticfpf; Sh? i" much bruised and'lit present is iinconi)cj|)u«j feut bo pes are held out for her recovery. Her brother; Mr William Caley, was billed in "the 'Christina* Eve t(twn accident, »nd »eveVal 'fttlier'-'inembeifc' family were injured." 1,1 ,

HAMILTON, April 21. Geo. Walton, "'dri Inmate of the Woikato Old Men's Kefbge.' wlnr lml recently been admitted fiorir ! the : ii'lj'''i | ' tl tt hospital suffering from rheumatism and sciatica, was found last night with a bullet wound in hi* head, lying iu (i>'diich ncaivthe hospital. A revolver was by his side. ' He; expired thi/i morning. At the inquost the evidence showed that deceased had wuiked from the hwijiitnl t" the lMpve and .tajcen tfio revolver from iwiongrit iiis belongings' The Jury returned a verdict of suicide by •hooting, and added a rider'retyueqtiijg.tbo Coroner to dra\rtthe"attent|o"ii' of the Hoi?Jiltal Board to tl»ft a Uiami lament of the reuge, and also oVprosnad Hiif opinion that Inmates of tl;o '' v ' " not be allowed to keep ftfearms there.

DANNEVIRKE, April„?o. A girl named Murray/eight years of ago, was accidentally killed (it Matamau to-day. Sho was in a trap with two others returning from school, when the horse took flight ac a motor car and bolted. The child ■r-wns thrown -out, and her skull fractuied. She .was also' injured by the •wheel of llio trap passing over tllo body. ; The other two'children escaped.

- . GHRISTCHURCH, April 21. The police leceived information this .morning r that a man named John McConkey, a lai-mer residing at Lake E.lat, Doylestori, died, suddenly last evening. Death was due 4o "syncope l ,, but was. indirectly caused by a trap accident met with on-April 6th. " The Coroner may. th*nk it necessary tb hold an inquest.

Our Glenavy correspondent writes:-—A most distressing accident took place here on Tuesday morning. While Mr Thomas Fleming's children were on their way to Glenavy School a waggon driven by a young man named "Andrew Wixon came along the road. . 'Wixon handed out some apples *to the children, and one little girl about eight years of age stumbled and fell in front of the wheel, and the heavy waggon* loaded witlij wheat passed over her leg and crushed It very,, badly. .Dr Barclay, of Waimate, was Holographed for and came down, in his motorfcftr in very fast,time, aid took the little sufferer to Waimate Hospital, where she will receive, every, attention.