ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10305, 9 November 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

511N1XG ACCIDENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November y, ID a.m.) LONDON, November 8. A message from Johannesburg says that a fall of rock at Primrose mine killed one European and entombed sixty natives. [Per P&r.ss Association.] GORE, November 10. A peculiar accident occurred this morning to W. Kirk, who was working about a motor-car when a small quantity of petrol exploded. Endeavouring to remove a tin of petrol from the machine Kirk's celluloid collar caught fire and lie was painfully burned about the head, but not seriously. The damage to the car was slight. INQUEST RESUMED. ' Tho inquest touching the death of Horace Leonard Thompson, who (lied in the Hospital recently from tetanus brought on through, a scalp wound, was resumed at the Magistrate's Court this morning bv the District Coroner, Mr H. W. liishop, S.M. George Thompson, father of the deceased, William M'Gill and Frank Ernest Prebble gave evidence to the effect _ that the deceased had been breaking in a horse at the time he met with the accident. The horse had been harnessed to a gig when the bit broke and the liorse bolted. The deceased, to avoid being thrown out in an inevitable collision with a gate-post, had thrown himself out of tho back of the. gig, sustaining a sc.ah) wound. The Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased had met his death through injuries sustained by him through being thrown from a trap.