Accidents and Fatalities.
• A man named Mountjoy was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday evening suffering from a fall into the cellar of one of the hotels in the centre of the town. He was in an unconscious state when admitted, and remained so during the whole of yesterday. A middle-Bged man named Robert M'Caualand sustained a fracture of both bones of one of hia legs, close to the ankle, while attempting to stop a runaway horse attached to a baker's cart at Doyleston, on Saturday morning. He waa picked up, and received attention at Doyleston till the train for Christchurch arrived, when he i was conveyed to the Hospital, where the : fracture was reduced. I The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death " at the inquest on the body of John Boyle, who met hia death at Valetta on Thursday, by a dray crushing him against a post. ; An accident, which might have resulted I fatally, occurred on Saturday afternoon at I the corner of Colombo and Gloucester streets, when a little boy named Arthur Gardner, youngest son of Mr J. Gardner, was run over by a spring cart. The wheels went over both legs, but they were not broken. The lad was severely bruised. He was picked up and taken to the Hospital, and shortly afterwards rallied suffij ciently to be taken to his parents' home.
Accidents and Fatalities.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7337, 18 July 1892, Page 2
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