CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14758, 30 August 1913, Page 15

CASUALTIES.

COLLISION HETWEKX TRAM-CAR AND JXKAY. Short!v before seven o'clock last night an Opuwa tram-car eoliidt-d with a spring dray at ihe corner of Tuam ami Colombo* streets, as a result of ( which accident the driver of tho cart, Ov.cn McGoiigh, an old man, was ro- j moved to tho hospital in an uncon-1 Kcioiis state. McGough was driving ! io LLaiswell. whom h>; resides, and it is | (stated that h<. , had r.o lights whon tho collision occurred. Another dray,, carrv.ng I.gilts, preceded him, and tho tram liad showed down in order to let this vehicle past. McGough also tried j to pass in front of tho tram, with tho I result that a violent collision took ! place. The cart and horso were capsized, but the animal, though entangled in the debris, was not hurt. The car was only slightly damaged, but the dray was badly smashed. McGough regained consciousness after admission to the hospital. He was attended by T>rs. Sinclair and Widdowson, and bWond suffering from shock, I'ii.s apparently sustained no serious injury. ANOTHER LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT. fPKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) PALMERSTON N., August 29. A Longburn settler, Mr R. D. Knight, who was driving home from Palmersbon this evening, was caught at a level crossing by the incoming Wellington train. He had a companion with him, and both were hurled from tho trap. Knight had a shoulder dislocated arid several ribs broken, but ho was not seriously injured. His companion escaped uninjured. The gig was smashed, but tho horse was not touched. The road crosses the lino diagonally, and there is a. clear view tho whole way of passing trains. 'A sad accident befell the invalid son of Mr T. J. Withers, of Southbrook, on Monday last. The unfortunate lad, who is about nineteen years of age, fell out of an invalid chair and badly broke* his arm. which necessitated it being amputated the following day. Mr. W. Scoon, Woodend road, yesterday sustained somes wounds in his legs through, a gun accident. Ho and a farm hand were out in a dray, and had taken a gun to shoot a huge. Tho weapon refused to fire, but later on the man was handling it when it went off, a lot of the pellets lodging in Mr Scoon's right leg, and some in the lower part of h'.A face. The sufferer was promptly attended by I>r. Will. Mr Beckelt, steward of tho Westport coal Company's steamer Canopus, was admitted to tho Weetport Hospital last Tuesday night, suffering from a complicated compound fracture' of the left am, a wound on the head, and other injuries, tho result of a fell from a gangway or wharf on to the ship's rail, thence to the deck, as be was going aboard. Captain Lobb and his officers administered first aid and the injured man was subsequently attended to at the hospital by Dr. Hallwright. (PRIMS AB3OCIATION TKLEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND. August 29. John Colbeck, son oi' the late Captain Colbeck, aged .sixty-two, was found dead on tho premises of the Auckland Club. Death was due to heart failure. AUCKLAND, August 29. Robert Anderson, aged 49, first ealoon steward on the Makura, committed suicide on the voyage from Sydney. He nearly cut his head off with a razor, and evidently held his head over a lavatory basin while ho committed the deed. HAMILTON. August 29. The body of Ettio Douglas, 37 years of age, a married woman, who left a poto on July 29th, at Cambridge, seating that she intended to drown herself, was found in the Waikato river i at Huntly. At the inquest a verdict; of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. LE\ r IN, August 29. Tho hose reel, while proceeding to a fire yesterday, knocked down Mr A. Skerman, an Otnki runholder, who sustained injuries to his head. He was removed to the hospital, where ho diet! after an apoplectic fit.