CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

Two of the employees at the Kai&ngata coal mine—Mr Neil Macahster (underground manager) and Mr Charles' Milne (mWb~ met with a serious accident in the workings last night. They were examining a portion of the mine known as the brick wall, when some live coal from a fire overhead dropped op them, and they were some>vliat severely burned. Dr Fitzgerald utUmded ■the sufferers. He does not anticipate jjerious consequences. Adyicea reoeiyed this afternoon state that both men are doing as well as can be expected. John M'Donold, a guard on the early train to Walton Park this morning, slipped at the Cattle Yards, and a wheel of one of the trucks wont oyer his finger, with the result that ho had to have two of them amputated at the hospital. Samuel SJkinner, aged nine years, who resided With his parents at Maori Hilj, dRd m the Hospital yesterday, apparently from blood-pokouing. Over a month agp Re‘fell from the scaffolding of a new building, and being looked after af bionic fop a fortnight was removed to the Hospital. There it was found necessary jto amputate his leg some days ago. Mr Graham (tRe district coroner) held an inquest at the this a.fienj.ooiL It 'was proceeding whan we went to prose. . -A- female child, aged ten weeks, Rejongmg to Arthur Herbert Brown, a laborer, raiding at Waikonajti, was found dead in bed this Jamming. The child Radi suffering from a cold, but was not attended by a doctor, lienee an Inquest- is lifcejy fo be held.

John Tail, head plumber for tRe Union Company at Port Chalmers, sustained a qaety accident this morning in Cumberland street, near fire R T nion Company’s stores. Ho attempted to stop a runaway heme that had bolted with a fight cart from Gibb's fish-curing establishment in Lower Stuart street. Tait was knocked down, and the cart appears to fiaye gone oyer him. He was carried into the stores, and Dr Martin was sent for. He ordered the man to be sent home to Port Ghaimers, which was done. Apparently Tail was suffering from a bruised shoulder, a cut head (which had to bo stitched), and shock. He » a married map. The driver of the cart, A, Wigg, of South Dunedin, says that be left the horse and cart outside' Gibb’s establishment for a momept, and the ch*in was then attached to the wheel.

INVERCARGILL, JMy 26. Charles Hind, aged fifty-five, single, a storekeeper at Browns, near Winton, was found dead in bed by his partner. Ho had, had no previous illness. The cause of death is supposed to have been heart disease.