CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13861, 12 October 1910, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

INQUEST. \n inquest touching the death of Alexander Seal, who was killed by tailing from a waggon he was driving alonsx Fitzgerald avenue on Monday, was S beforl Mr H. W. Bishop, coroner, at the hosnital yesterday. Dr T> ii. Foster, Medical Superintendent at the hospital, said that deceased was brought in at 4 p.m. the previous day. He was taken to a ward, but was found to be dead. Witness examined the body and found the chest badly crushed on the right side and several ribs broken. The neck was also broker. Fanny Louisa Seal, wife of deceased, stated her husband was 31 years ot ago. He was lately employed as driver lor H Mace and* Comnany. He was subject "to fainting fits, which he had had Very often "lately. Deceased hiul tho day previously told witness the work v as too hcivy and he was going to give Frank Williams, porter at the Eastern Hotel, stated that the previous day, about 3.30 p.m., ho heard a noise, and on looking over the fence saw deceased stretched out on the road. Deceased had evidently fallen from the van lie was driving. Ha was unconscious when witness arrived on the s.pot. The Coroner returned a verdict that death had resulted through an accidental fall from a van.

A young daughter of Mr Tom Logan, Belfield. "Geraldine, met with a serious accident on Sunday. She was riding a two-year-old trotter without saddle, or bridle, and was thrown heavily te the ground. By some means her feet were entangled in th© horse cover, and she was dragged some distance, receiving a severe scalp wound and being badly trampled and bruised before she could be released. What,might have resulted in a serious accident happened in tho main street of Amberlcy yesterday. A horse driven by the groom from Teviotdale staticn was conveying Mrs and Miss Greenwood home from the railway station, when the horse suddenly became iestive, started plunging and kicking, with the result that the vehicle was overturned, throwing the occupants out. _.Irs Grernwc'od was considerably shaken and was severely bruised. Miss Greenwood was more fortunate, and beyond shock was unhurt. The vehicle Vas considerably damaged when overturned, both shafts being broken.

Whilst turning out horses into a paddock at Amberley on Monday evening, Mr A. J. Fairweather was kicked by one of tho animals, with tho result that threo of his ribs were fractured.

A serious accident happened to Charles Unsworth McGrath, 23 years of age, a son of Sub-Inspector McGrath, yesterday evening. Young McGrath, who is a conductor on the trams, on which he has been employed for the past five or six months, was changing over the seats of a car which had just left the Addinrrton terminus, shortly after five o'clock, and was going between four and five miles an hour, when, in moving on tho footboard from one part of the tram to another, his head came in contact with one of the tramway poles. Tho concussion rendered him unconscious, and ho fell back clear of tho car, and sustained a cut on the back of the head. He was brought to town in the tram and taken to his home, ,'md received medical attention. Shortly after nine o'clock he regained consciousness, and his complete recovery, it is honed, is only a question of time.