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FATALITIES AND   ACCIDENTS.    

A BOLTING HORSE.  

Springton, October 25.  

On Friday Mr. W. Roesler tied his horse, which was harnessed to a sulky, to a post   in front of Mr. A. Rohrlach's carpenter's  

shop, but the animal broke loose and made for home. After travelling about 300 yards it trod on the neckrope and came to grief, but, recovering quickly, continued   until the sulky overturned near Mr. W. Lyddon's place. The horse freed himself from the vehicle and was caught with one of the shafts dragging on the ground. The sulky was considerably damaged.    

DEATH AFTER AN ACCIDENT.    

The City Coroner (Dr. Ramsay Smith) conducted an inquest at the Adelaide Police Court on Monday morning into the circumstances surrounding the death of Errel George Hartwell, a youth, aged 17, who had died at the Adelaide Hos- pital on October 22, where he had been admitted suffering from injuries sustained in a collision with a train while driving a milk cart at Murray Bridge on Octo- ber 2.     William James Hartwell, carrier, of Magill-road, St. Peters, identified the body of the deceased as that of his son. So far as he knew the boy had good sight and sound hearing.      

John Edmond O'Donnell, enginedriver on the train which collided with the de- ceased's cart, stated that when approach- ing the first crossing after leaving Mur- ray Bridge for Adelaide, he blew the whistle twice. It was a very dark night, and he took the extra precaution of   sounding the alarm the second time, be- cause he recognised that the crossirig was a bad one. He did not see the light on the deceased's cart approaching the cross-   ing until he was only a short distance from the crossing himself. He applied     the air brake, but there was no hope of stopping the train, and the engine struck the horse on the shoulder. As soon as the train had stopped the witness went back to the crossing, and saw a youth sitting on the road about 2 ft. 6 in. from the rails. His leg and arm were badly   crushed.        

Ernest Robert Brown, a mason, of Mur- ray Bridge, stated that he saw the acci- dent from about 100 yards away. He heard the train whistle twice. The de- ceased was standing up in his cart carry- ing a hurricane lamp when the collision occurred, and he was thrown on to the rails.                    

James Alfred Marshall, porter, of Mur- ray Bridge, deposed that he set the gong ringing at the crossing as the train left the station. The gong was automatically   cut off by the engine passing over a rail on the station side of the crossing. Edward Brooke Thomas, resident medi- cal officer at the Adelaide Hospital, stated that Hartwell was admitted to the Ade- laide Hospital on October 3. He was quite conscious, and told the witness that he had been run over by a train the previous night. Six days after his ad- mission bronho-pneumonia set in; but the witness thought that was probably adven- titious. Empyema on the right side of the chest followed, and septicaemia fol- lowed on that, and caused death. Had not the pneumonia set in the boy might have lived, for the original injuries would not necessarily have caused death. The Coroner recorded a verdict of death

from septicaemia following on broncho- pneumonia.    

TROLLY AND CAB COLLIDE.

    Considerable excitement was caused on Monday morning by a collision in front of Parliament House, North-terrace. A

trolly and pair, owned by Mr. S. Thred- gold, carrier, of North-terrace, and drives by Mr. T. Margitich, was brought to a standstill on Victoria-bridge, King William-road, to allow the driver to re-fasten a pole-chain, which had become loose. While he was on the ground one of the

horses took fright. The pair then careered along the road and turned into North-ter- race. Mr. Margitich is said to have made a particularly courageous attempt to stop the runaways. He rnanaged to hold one of the reins, and get on the trolly but the brake could not hold the bolting horses. Opposite Parliament House the trolly and pair collided head on with a cab on the rank there. Immediately the four horses were mixed up in what seemed like inextricable confusion, and the kick-   ing and screaming of the animals soon     drew a large crowd. The harness was cut away, and the cab was lifted bodily clear. One of the horses had an off hind leg badly cut, but otherwise no damage or injury was done, and the cabdriver (Mr.   T. H. Moyle, of Jeffcott-street, North Ade- laide) escaped unhurt. Fortunately the cab was unoccupied.                  

       

TRAM AND HORSE COLLIDE. Mrs. Mabel Matthews, of Phillip-street,

Adelaide, and her child had a fortunate   escape from injury on Monday afternoon. They were being driven by a lad, Harold Sells, in a spring-cart along Ebor-avenue, West Adelaide. When they turned on the tramline on the Henley Beach-road an electric car struck the horse. The result was that both shafts of the cart were broken and the three occupants were thrown out. Mrs. Matthews suffered   slightly from shock. The horse became detached from the cart and bolted.      

A LACERATED HAND.      

   

Victor Harbor, October 27. On Saturday Mr. S. L. Cakebread was working at the circular-saw in his woodyard, cutting firewood, when his hand came in contact with the saw, with the result that it was badly lacerated. The doctor dressed the hand, and hopes to save the fingers.      

BROKEN FINGERS.    

Victor Harbor, October, 27.   Mr. John W. Crompton (son of Mrs. J. Crompton, of Stonyfell, Burnside), who has a farm in the Back Valley, on Friday night was thrown from a young horse he was riding. In falling he put   out his hands to save himself, and landed

heavily on the left hand, breaking two   fingers. Dr. Douglas set them satis- factorily.      

A MOTOR FATALITY.   Wellington (N.Z.). October 27.  

A motor car, driven by Dr. Meade, Of   Blenheim, overturned to-day and rolled down a steep incline. Mrs. Meade was killed.      

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