ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4572, 17 February 1893, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

r» [Special to Pbkss Association-.] THE IONIC DISABLED. CAPETOWN, Fbb. 15. . . The lonio has been towed into Capetown with a broken shaft. A FBIGHTFUL QOCURREiTOEn VIENNA, Feb. 15. ,' While a ball was proceeding in a .town of Hungary, uome children .'. accidentally exploded a cask of petroleum in the room underneath. ".''A terrible fire followed, in which the J i.. n^eCTy^makers wereat once enveloped. Seventeen or 1 them were burnt to ; ' ashes, and twenty- two were more or ' lesß injured. ' ; WEECK. SYDNEY, Pbb. 16. " The Sandfly, formerly a gunboat in the Navy, was completely wrecked in the '' : Solomon Islands group. The crew was saved.

Shortly afber the excursion train left the railway station at Lake Forsyte yesterday 1 evening, a serious aocident occurred to Mr ". . Abraham Bowley, recently schoolmaster at > Teddington,but now atKaiapoi. Ha was crossing .the railway line immediately in front* of the engine, when he fell, the engine going over, his legs. His right foot was out off below the ankle, and the leg was broken above the knee.. He also received a deep flesh wound on the thigh of the left leg, which was noc broken. A large number of passengers on the train --- witnessed the occurrence, which waß purely accidental. The unfortunate man was endeavouring to make headway against the strong wind that was blowing at the time. Mr Miller, Secretary of the Chrietcharch Hospital, and Constables , Drake and Hayes attended to Mr Bowley . until the train arrived at Addington, when Constables Dillon and Bailey had him conveyed to the Hospital on the police ambulance stretcher. At a late hour last night Mr Bowley's condition wan coneiaered very, dangerous.