CASUALTIES

Evening Star, Issue 12399, 12 January 1905, Page 4

CASUALTIES

At the inquest held at Ravensboutne yes* terday, before Coroner Graham and a jury, into the circumstances attending the death of Sarah Tohill, who died suddenly the previous day in a railway carriage while travelling between Ravensboume and Sun* edin, a verdict of death from heart disease was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. At Whatoutu, in the Poverty Bay district, about 6.30 last evening, a young man named Eae, aged nineteen years, went in for a swim in the river after work. He jnmpcd in feet first, but as he did not rise to the surface his two companions made every effort to rescue him. The body was found .some time later, when life was quit* extinct. It is supposed that death was caused from the shock of going into the water in a heated state. Deceased’s parents belong to Gore. Wallace Crocker, aged twenty, employed on the railway, and the son of a New Plymouth resident, was run over by an angina yesterday at Stratford, and died immediately.

A laborer named William H. Qeddea, aged seventy-one years, died suddenly at Ramriora yesterday afternoon from heart disease. 4

GISBORNE, Januam 12. George Stevens, who was injured a few days ago by a kick from a horse, died in the hospital last night after his leg had been amputated. A singular coincidence is that Stevens was brought to the hospital by George Rae, the young man who wa S drowned last evening.

CHRISTCHURCH. January 12. A very serious accident happened at Hanmer to Mia Holmes, formerly proprietress of the Upper Waiau Ferry Hotel. She was driving with Miss Pugh along the road with a skittish horre, when it took fright at a man on a bicycle and bolted. Miss Pugh was thrown out on the road, and Mrs Holmes caught her foot in the reins and was dragged about a mile. She was fearfully bruised, her clothes being tom off. Miss Pugh had a smell bone in the ankle broken. Mrs Holmes is in r very precarious condition.