Accidents and Fatalities.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4578, 24 February 1893, Page 4

Accidents and Fatalities.

[SsaOli-U TO pBSSfI ASSOCIATION.") LONDON, Feb. 22. The Admiralty Court found that the Anchor Line steamer Boumania, wrecked at Arelho, north of Lisbon, while bound from Liverpool to Bombay, had over-run her distance owing to a current, and advises that a greater number of European quartermasters should be employed on vessels manned by Asiatics. ' VIENNA, Feb. 22. An explosion has taken place in a mine in Skalitz owing to there being no air in the shaft. Fifteen miners were killed. The Government has taken steps to close the mine. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Terrific snow blizzards have been experienced in tbe eaatern and middle States, and railway traffic is impeded. The blizzard that is being experienced in the eastern and middle States exceeds in severity that of 1888. Many persons have been frozen to death.

[Pbb Pbbss Association.] WANGANUI, Feb. 23. The schooner Falcon, with flour from Timaru, went ashore in the river at two this afternoon. The Stormbird was towing her in, and had just oleared the bar, when the line parted. The vessel is the property of Mr John Duncan, of Picton, and her skipper,-Captain Green, says that she is not insured. Tbe cargo, which is consigned to Messrs A. Hatrick and Co., consists of .100 tons of flour and 500 sacks of oats. The latter are insured for _6200 in the New Zealand Insurance Company, The insurance on the flour ia not known. It ia expected that the vessel will float off when the cargo is removed. Mr G. W. Bennett, of the Warehousemen's Club, met with a severe accident last evening when fielding' for his team. In some peculiar manner he slipped, and was unable to rise, and upon medical aid being called! in it was found that he had broken the cap of one of his knees. The Southland Times states that a man named James Miller, who haa lived in the Waikiwi district for a good many years, met with an accident on Tuesday morning which resulted fatally a few hours Inter. He waa working, at a clay bank, about* seven feet high at Myer'-. brickworks, when a slip took place and a masa of clay fell on him. When extricated he was thought to be dead, but afterwards showing signs of life, Dr Low was cent for, and was quiokly in attendance. He found Miller waa suffering from concusaion of the spine, and ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died in the afternoon. The deceased was seventy years of age. As Mr B. Stent, of the Kaiapoi Brewery, was cutting some wood with a tomahawk on Wednesday afternoon, he accidentally out his wrist so severely as to necessitate the attendance of Dr Parsons, who bad to put one or two stitches in. It is probable that the sufferer will be able to resume his business in a few days.