ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13557, 30 March 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

LOOKING FOR A GAS 'LEAK.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright MELBOURNE, March 28.

A grocer's shop at Richmond was wrecked by a, gas explosion. Two employees of the Gas Company were searching for a leak and ultimately found it willi a lighted match. The son of the proprietor and one. of the. gas men were thrown through a window and badly cut. The third man had his clothes .-.Bet on lire but the flameo were extinguished by a passer-by.

TRAM AND LORRY COLLIDE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 28. 'A serious accident occurred in Courtenay place this morning, when a. trumour and a. steam lorry .collided. The motorman, Frank Barton, was buried beneath the wreckage, and when extricated was found to be seriously injured. As soon as the vehicles were unlocked, the lorry bolted, as a result of the isteam not being cut off, and inn on to the footpai.h knocking down and injuring an onlooker named W. Young. BANK MANAGER'S MISTAKE. DUNEDIN, March 28. At the inquest at Mosgiel to-day on the body 'of Thoma» Arthur Bramble, manager of the Bank of New Zetland at. Outram, who was killed on the railway on Friday night, the evidence went to show tha't deceased had apparently not noticed that the tram had arrived at Mo.sgiel, at which station he 6hould have alighted, until it had got under way again for Clinton, and that he then hurriedly left the carriage in which he wai 3 sitting and jumped off the train which .had attained a good rate of speed. He fell on to the platform and was dragged tinder the train, the guard's van passing over his right leg and completely severing it. A' verdict of accidental death was returned.

A FATAL NOSE. INVERCARGILL, Maich 29. An inquest was held on Saturday touching the death of James Edward Fox, who died at Mabel Station. The medical evidence showed that death was due to acute septic poisoning' from) internal abscesses, probably caused by inflammation in a soft parti of the nose for which > deceased had received medical lieatment. FRIDAY'S SCALDING FATALITY. VERDICT OF' ACCIDENTAL DEATH. An incjuefet wa& held on Satmday morning at F. M. Shew an's bakery, Stafford street, touching the' death of Ralph Magnus Shewan, aged 2-years and 2 months, who succumbed to scalds lecelved on Fii'day through upsetting a, bucket of hot water. Mr C. A. Wray, S.M., was coroner, and the following were the jury: R. Smith (foreman), H. Smith, J! Ormisbon, W. IW. Wade, W. A., Pear : hon'aiid >C. W. Wood." V-. M >Shewan, father c-f the dijtcabcd, stated lliat abou(, 11.45 on Friday morning', while he' was working in his bakehouse fife "Heard a scream otiteide the door and- on investigating saw ' the deceased standing m the yard, a Tew feet' from the door, and close by »a« an upiet bucket which' had ijuet contained hot water. His wjfe had 'gone to the bakchoui-f for ■ hot water and when leturning to the" dwelling hqusfe decided to go ba'ck for the children, who were playing in the bakery, 130 she left thei' bucket standing in the yard while &he • went back It was then the accident'oceui red, and a,5 the boy h-id been seen leaving the bakeh.ori.ei and walking backwards it was surmised that he fell across, the bucket and upset it. He was- immediittely stripped of lua cloth*!? and carbonate of soda, was applied to tihe scalds, which were mostly on the back Medical aid was at once sent for, but the child expired, six liqurs later. Mis Shewan a'*o gave evidence b°aiing out her husband's statements. Dr Uiiwin, who was called, m to attend, the deceased, stated, that the scalds vera not severe, but were extensive and the child; had died of shock. IW ffjiirid the Whole of the back scalded, the right leg and to a lceiser extant the left one, als» both arms and in parts the skin had pealed off. There were no burns, on the front of the body or on the head. The flour and carbonate of soda which was on the scalds when he arrived, even if it could do, no good would do no harm. The jury, Avithoufc retiring,' brought in a verdict that deceased died of shock sustained through being 6calded.