ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4934, 25 April 1894, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A Fatal Hurricane. [Special to Press Association.] BRISBANE, April 24. A fearful hurricane swept the Rocks Kiver goldfield*, accompanied by a tremendous rainfall. A tree fell on three miners, killing two and injuring the third. [Per Prkbi Association.! DUNE DIN, April 24. At an inquest touching the death of "William David Caraon, who died suddenly yesterday, a verdict was returned of "Death from hemorrhage of the left lung." A rider was added that a public morgue should be established, and that it was very hard that publicans should be called upon to receive bodies at a moment's notice. A narrow escape from what might have been a very serious accident happened at the West Ljtteiton echcol grounds yesterday afternoon. One of the fierce nor'-west squalls blew down a galvanised iron fence, and some five or six of the children who were on their way to school were knocked down by it. A daughter of Mr G. C. Smith, a little girl about fight years old, was very severely bruised, bub Dr Guthrie, who was called in, pronounced no bones broken. Constable Scully telegraphed yesterday from Akaroa, to the effect that a farmer named Frederick Phillips, of German Bay, had been found in an unconecious state on the road near his house. It was supposed ! that he had fallen off his horse. He was examined by a doctor, who pronounced the unfortunate man to be suffering from c n- ' cussion of the brain, and that no hope of his recovery could be entertained. A man named Edward Button was ad* mitted to the hospital yesterday, suffering from a broken rib, the result; of a fall while gardening.