ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5761, 4 January 1897, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.! LONDON, Jan. 3. Lord . William, Beresf ord, who was injured while stag hunting, is suffering from a broken pelvis. His condition is improving. "WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. The. body, of Anna Craig, the third victim in Friday's boat accident, has been recovered. That of the man Hazelwood, though only in the water one night, was much disfigured by the ravages of fish.

An inquest was held at Lyttelton on New Year's Day' on the body of the boy Eobert -Richard Durham, who died from injuries received by falling from a bank in Coleridge Street. The evidence of Thomas Kent and Mrs Denny was to the effect that on the evening of Dec. 27 they saw the boy walking pn the top rail of a fence close to the edge of a bank in Coleridge Street. They saw him fall, and when picked up he was unconscious. Dr Guthrie, who attended the deceased, deposed that he died from injuries received to the spine and brain, and a verdict was returned acaccordingly.

Mr H. Jones, the cab-driver, who encountered a train at the Colombo Street crossing on Saturday morning, is doing as well as could be expected. One of his legs is broken at the thigh, and the other cus in addition to which injuries he has received a thorough shaking and bruising. Mr Jones states that the train was |(pon him before he noticed it, and that no whistle or alarm was given. He endeavoured to turn his horse down the line at once, and had partially succeeded when the train struck the horse. Each successive carriage struck the cab after the horse was killed, and he remembers being rolled over and over frequently. Jones regards the escape of his passenger, Mr M'Quaid; as almost miraculous.

A lad named Salt fell from the watermen's steps ■at Lytttjlton on Saturday afternoon. He "was not long in the water before being observed by another lad named Koskello, who very pluckily jumped overboard, and lost no time in getting Salt ashore.

Thomas Pringle, a patient suffering from violent dementia, and who had twice before attempted escape, fell on Dec, 29 from . the window of his cell at it-he Sunnyside JAsylum, up to which he had managed to" climb. The unfortunate man fell head foremost on, to the floor of the cell, which was unpadded, and died on the following day from his injuries. At the inquest the jury, of whom Mr D. Duncan was foreman, returned a verdict of death from fracture of the skull, and added a rider to the effect that all such cells should be padded throughout.