ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5334, 12 August 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

STRANDING OF THE j WARRIMOO. [Special to Pbkbb Abbooiatiok.l VANCOUVER, August 10. The Warrimoo went ashore at Cormancb. Point in a dense fog. The weather was calm at the time, and the vessel was floated off without sustaining injury, and is being towed here. All the passengers were landed safely. She went ashore on the same Hpot as that where the Duchess of Argyle was wrecked. NEW YORK, August 10. Six of the crew belonging to the ship Prince Oscar were drownedThe others were resetted by the ship Capak after being in an open boat for three days without food. It is believed that the steamer which collided with her had a crew of thirty ' or forty hands, and . that all ware drowned. WRECK OF A BARQUE. PERTH, August 12. The barqu May Hill, from Middlesbrough, with a cargo of iron rails, struck a reef two miles outside Geraldton, and became a total wreck. She is now full of water. The crew landed safely. THE ARGUS. THURSDAY ISLAND, August 12. It is expected that the Argus will be ready for sea in. a few days. The damage is not nearly so great as waa Buppoßed. Sixteen horses died, but the most valuable animals are in good health. No fewer than four aocident cases oame to the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday and Sunday. On the former day the jockey William Higgins, who had been riding Rags when the latter fell in the Eafield Steeplechase, on Thursday, was admitted suffering from severe injury to the muscles and nerves of the right upper arm. In the evening a cabman named Barry, who had been thrown while riding to his home at Opawa, was received as a patient; and it was'found that one of his ribs was broken. On Sunday morning tho jockey J. Cotton, who had been crushed against a rail while riding Victim in the Maiden Hurdles, on Thursday, came to the hospital for treatment, but did not remain. His legs were very badly bruised, the left one especially so. On Sunday afternoon a little boy, named Rickaby, three and a half years old, son of a farmer at Halswell, was admitted into the institution suffering from ecalds on one area and both legs, caused by his having upßet a plate of hot porridge over himßelf in the morning. On Saturday evening Mr James Homeblow, East Belt, Rangiora, who iB about ninety years of age, when walking in his garden, slipped and fel), breaking his left thigh. Dr Volckman set the limb, bat the patient is in a low condition from the shook. At Bangiora, on Saturday afternoon, a young man named Jameß Murray, employed by Mr G. Cone, butcher, had one of his feet severely injured in the cog-wheels , of a horse-power used to drive the sausage machinery.