Accidents and Fatalities.

Star (Christchurch), 30 September 1893, Page 6

Accidents and Fatalities.

™ z — •"" — I [Feb Pbbsb Association.] AUCKLAND, Skm. 29. An accident occurred at the Kiripaka coal mine, Whangarei. A man named Gomez had a shoulder blade and two ribs broken through the fall of a part of the roof, and it ia feared that he is injured internally. A boy named Caraman has been admitted to the hospital from Onehunga for treatment for irritant poisoning. .He lies atthe institution unconscious and in a critical oondition. The case haa received every attention at the hospital, but, strange to say, the doctors are unable to cay from what poison the lad ia suffering. The Onehunga police state that enquiries made by them are to the effect that the boy had eaten some highly ooloured lollies. Caraman was playing about the streets with his companions when he was taken suddenly ill. After examination by Dr Scott, who considered the caae one of irritant poisoning, he was sent to'the hospital. A PEEILOT7S VOYAGE. * WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. Captain Cowan, of the ship Wellington, bonnd from Picton to Londoa, whioh put into Bio in July, having been in collision with an iceberg, reports that she struck an icaberg off the Falkland Islands at fonr o'clook one morning. Captain Cowan and bis mate had both been injured previously in SOdeg S., 150deg W., by a eea whioh. was shipped, and which smashed the wheel, injuring the helmsman, who was in the hospital at Bio when Captain Cowan wrote. The collision with the iceberg killed two men in their berths. The. bowsprit and everything forward were completely carried away, with part-of the stem down to ihe^eoeond' plate. ""- The foreyard and foretopsail yards were right, but all above that were gone. The hawsepipe waa smashed and the windlass damaged, and the forestaya and fastenings were gone altogether. It waa a very serious affair, and bnt for the collision bulkhead holding out, with the help of sails drawn across the bows, the vessel must have foundered. At noon yeaterday, as a traction engine waß drawing a large wooden building past the Wesleyan Church, Kaiapoi, a little girl, Maude Bugg, ten years old, by some mishap gbt her foot very severely crushed by one of the trolly wheels. Luckily, she was. near home, and Dr Murray was soon in attendance. It is not known whether any boneß are broken, but the foot ia much bruißed. Yesterday a young man named Charleß Saggers, employed in Messrs P. and D. Duncan's foundry, was using a mandril on some iron when a small piece struck him in one of his eyes, wounding it to Buoh an extent tbat it is feared it may I be destroyed. I