CASUALTIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 325, 10 January 1914, Page 3

CASUALTIES.

A WATERSIDER’S DEATH. [per press association.] Auckland, Jan. 9. A waterside worker named Wil liam H. Piddock, who suffered severe injuries to his legs while helping to load the Ruahine on Mon day, died at the hospital to-day. The deceased was a married man, aged 52, and his family reside at Ponson by. A FRACTURED SKULL. Gisborne, Jan. 9. While engaged in unloading rail way sleepers from the steamer Rip pie at the wharf to-night, a water side worker named William Cole was struck on the side of the head' by an iron rail and sustained a frac ture of the base of the skull and a depressed fracture of the vault of the skull. He was taken to the has pital, where an operation was per formed to-night, but his condition h regarded as critical. He is a married man with a family of seven. A NARROW ESCAPE. Hokitika, Jan. 9. A miner named Pinlay had a nar row escape from death this morning at the Ross Goldfields mine. He was coming out of a cross drive when a shot was being fired in the headway and was struck on the breast by a stone, the wound neces sitating nine stitches. FOUND DROWNED. Dunedin, Jan. 9. A single man named Daniel Lovell, 40 years of age, mail carrier, who had been living by himself in a whare at Deep Stream, was found drowned in a creek near his hut at 6 o’clock this morning. WHARF ACCIDENT. Auckland, Jan. 9. A serious accident occurred on Queen’s Wharf this morning, a labourer named John Bell being re moved to the hospital in an uncon scious condition suffering from severe wounds on the head. Bell fell off an overhead trolleyway on to the wharf, striking the asphalt with his head. A doctor ordered his re mova! to the hospital at once.