ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10535, 9 August 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

THE LABATUL RAILWAY ACCIPENT. United Press Association —Ey Electrio TelegTaph—Copyright. (Received August 9, 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. - A Paris message says that the victim of the Labatul railway accident was named Saunders, not Fanford. EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP. A Berlin message says that an explosion of fire damp entombed more than 100 men in Lothringen Colliery at Bochum. Sixty-five have been saved and sixteen persons were severely injured. Twenty-five bodies have been recovered, but the others have been burned, as the oolliery is on firo. [Per Press Association.] THAMES, August 8. Captain Anderson, of the steamer Kopu, got his arm caught in a winch, and sustained a compound fracture. He narrowly escaped death. INQUEST. At Ashburton to-day an inquest was lield before Mr V. G. Day, S.M., touching the death of Julius Edward Healey, a lad seven years of age who died of injuries received through his coming in contact with an express train, as the train was passing Fairfield freezing works crossing last Monday afternoon. From the evidence it appeared that three lads were seen some little distance from the crossing, as the train was approaching, and before the train had cleared the crossing they were seen to be making feints at the train with their hats, and immediately after the lad Healey was picked up in an unconscious state with a wound in his head and lying close to the railway line. It further appeared that two of the lads made a rush across the line immediately behind the guard's van, and that Healey made an attempt to cross a bit too soon, and his head came in contact with the footboard of the guard's van. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, and remarked that no blame whatever was to be attached to tho railway officials, but ho thought that parents should warn their children not to go near passing trains or play about at railway crossings.