CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17225, 16 August 1921, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

: • While felling a tree at Mr Taylor's | r farm, Waipara, yesterday, a young man ~ Sd William Frederick Falloon, met t with a severe accident. In facing the tree struck another one and rebounded I striking Falloon and crushing- his left foot. The sufferer, was brought into n the Brockkhurst private hospital, Ila- I. ruriora At first it was thought it ; would'be necessary to amputate the < foot, but the doctors are now hopeful i of saving it. ; (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGEA3IS.) < HAMILTON, August 13. . .< When Leonard Hardcastle, a taxi- ? ; 'driver, was\driving a party along the . Karuniuroad, he took too wide a sweep : when approaching a- bridge with the j result that the oar crashed through the 1 rail fell 15 *«* into &° frateriand--i overturned. A passenger Ivan ■ tore rescued the driver and a lady passenger. No'trace, however, was found , of Hardcastle's two-year-old child, t which had apparently Hoated down the ; river and been drcwned. ' nT ,-• GISBORNE, August 15. a lieslie Je-ffers, aged: ei, employed on road construction work at Wharerata, dropped a crowbar wfth which he was working on top of a bank 12ft above the road; The crowbar stood upright ; : in the teoft earth. Jellers slipped down • the bank, and became impaled on the • bar which went right through his ' body, entering a thigh and coming.out 1 a* the ehoulder-b'ade.. It required the ' efforts of two strong men to remove the - —3 bar. Jeffers wna brought to town and i admitted to hospital. He died on Sun- . < day afternoon. .. .[ i (special to "the peess.") ij GISBORNIfi, August 15. '*• !< Br. Bowie, who attended the injured ' man, said it was one of the worst cases \ \that had- called for his medbal atten- t jtion. Ho had never heard of or read ; ". of a case "where a man was so terribly < : skewered. The steel rod punctured the i | aodomen, lungs, and bladaer. The man ] could.never nave recovered from the ; i mjuries he received. ]