CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14325, 10 April 1912, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

(press association _ei.__.ums.) HAMILTON, April 9. Ernest Richard Dennison, a railway porter, aged 27. was drowned whilo swimmiDg in the lake yesterday. T>-i.n'.sou dived from a punt and splashed. He then sank. He leaves w wife and a young chili}. AUCKLAND. April.9. William H. Trail, aged 84, a resident of Waihi. fell on tho deck of tho ferry steamer travelling to Devonport, and when picked up was dead. On the voyage of the steamer Surrey from Liverpool-to Auckland, a seania» named Porter fell overboard v.-hen the vessel was half-way between Capetown and Australia. A saloon steward named C. Leon de Lance immediately dived overboard to the man's rescue. He unsuccessfully !..-_arehcd for him, when suddenly he (Lance) was viciously attacked by an albatross, and had great difficulty'in beating it off. Do Lane© was rescued with difficulty, but no trace of Porter was found.

Dr. A. C. Purchas had a very narrow escape from being killed this evening, when his motor car was smashed to fragments through being pinned between two tram cars in Manukau road, Parnell. He was trying to cross the rails when a downward tram struck the motor car, hurling it against an upcoming car, and reducing - it to fragment. Dr. Purchas had a most miraculous escape, receiving only a severe shaking and some cuts from flying fragments of glass.

DUNEDIN, April 9. "William Nesbitt, aged 45, a married man. residing in Anderston road, Kaikorai. whilst returning home last night struck an electric car from Maori Hill, and was killed. Evidently he stood on the edge of tlio kerbing and lurched inwards as the car approached, for ho struck the front portion of the lifeguard, and fell under the car, tho wheels passing over both legs and the lower portion of his body. Ho was dreadfully injured. Death was instantaneous. Motorman Dredge soys no one saw deceased till he appeared right in front of the car, which was then unable to draw up. At the- inquest the evidence showed that Neebit was very drunk. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to deceased being run over by a tram whilo under tho influence of liquor, no blame being attachable to anyone. IXVEUCABG.LIi. April [). Thomas Dougherty, a labourer, aged 50. was. with a companion, walking across the railway yard at Wyndham yesterday evening, when lie was struck by a shunting engine, and killed.

Whilst proceeding in a out tor from the Bluff to Stewart Island on Monday evening, Emil Andersen was washed overboard, and drowned- His companions, two brothers named Silvester, had tho vessel hove-to, and a search mado for the missing man, but without avail. The deceased resided on. the cutter, and it is believed he was single. It is. not known whether he had any relatives in the Dominion.