CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

At the City Council's Central yard yes- I - terday morning, -shortly after nine o'clock, ! Alfred Taylor, one of the Council', employees, lost hia life. Taylor was kadiug a large and powerful horse, attached to a dray, down the incline from the Destructor tip. Something startled the animal, and it bolted. Taylor kept his hold of it, aad attempted to* get it under control, but the animal succeeded ia .baking him off just before reaching the ' weighbridge* and Taylor fell under one of the wheel., which passed over his chest. When he was picked" up lie was conscious, - but __-]& to stand unassisted. The , ambulance was got, and he was removed > to the Hospital, where he was attended to, - but he expired from the effect- of his in- [ *• juries shortly after eleven o'clock. Taylor * , was between thirty and forty years of: ? age, and was a married man with two fehil-. J \ dren. After shaking off Taylor, tbe horse' ?"~J *«pntin-ed it« mad career, and wa_ only "" „• -rtopped by the fence round the Canterbury l Bail site. The impetus with which th'e -g animal struck the fence may be imagined .|-» when it is stated that it brought down the '£, fence after it had climbed the steep bank ■-i' in front of it. An inquest will be held y? at 230 to-day. "si-, ' The inquest touching the- death of the _V infant aon of Thomas Mason Abbott, of ' t 4 . -Fisher -treet, Papanui, was resumed be- '■£' (ore Mr W. R. Ha*e.de_, coroner, at the. X\ Magistrate's Court yesterday. Dr. •I-' Downes, aa the result of a pos-t-jnortem "sf ? ' -examination, stated that there Were no, f;T marks of violence on the child, but the * £■£ r internal organs were congested. Tl»e child M-* u_d d„d from suffocation, possibly caused !•/. P? -y irt ff on its . **<*• It .woe doubtful if £-'- "he" could have saved the child even <if he £2' %*& **«* colled ia at once. A verdict of ££ "•ccidenUl.death was returned. jiff >. * (BRESS ASSOCIATION T_t_OßJ_tg.) SJ PALMERSTON NORTH, April 25. The pokoe have received intimatioii that >-, a. man named David Burson. was killed while trucking logs at Shannon on Satttr- :.- day.. Deceased fell from a truck, and a y , heavy log rolled over him. He leaves a wife ud five children; : * _"'___ ». DUNEDIN, April 25. . j-*** o«*nnen, Samuel Andrew, and Henry Sampson, were making tbsir way *° * ratter at Port Ch-hoer. late on Saturday night, when the former fell bew«a the cutter and a. coal hulk into the Sampson promptly rescued his companion, bat life waa extinct. The deceased was fifty years of age, and. well connected '■) .■>» mm Old Country. H» formerly comlt manded several large steamer-. * AUCKLAND, Aprfl 25. ';- -*- _.*-L? l -. quest ' coßcerning tho death of -j Tucker under chloroform, the evi,i *«» Mowed that the operation waa for >4 ma nanoval of an nkerated growth in the jaw, ea_?ed by the chafing ot false teeth. I x "turned a verdict that death xe1, suited from chloroform acting oa a. weak It' heart, and that it was quite accidental. s. Uere being no external indication that de<g, ceased would be a _an-rerou_ subject. % _. f NELSON. April 25, nils afternoon Ernest Baacand was sUndmg oa a plank fixed to a. sxxffolding, . Tenting the Costonv House Hotel, when ■ ,-; the nlank gave way, and he fell 22ft, ■treating ha wrist. Two men working •Wow were also injured, Percy Chine busa ¥ *% ,! rt besides bruises, Leß P* r a ****** ««8h on the * _i« 3l w ?*?« mb tr last- n young woman „*_*- Underlull dUappeared from her *»w« m Timaro. She was traced to Ran--___li^ lw, ? Sb * t *<"'. and there aU clue wSu- ; 5™ Sunday a farmer named foond ilie much-decomposed re™»ns « * woman in the Rangitata river--ir7*it ' )e ' n '? "w-ntinsr. To-day C > SSKr** 1, * *>** Underhill idenjified the * j 0 oa tho wmains as that of his . _ daughter.