CASUALTIES.
(Per United Press Association.) Auckland, January 24-. An explosion of gas look place in the strong room ab the basemen!; of the warehouse of Mucky. Logan, Stesn, and Co., resulting in John Brown (storemaa) and William Mitchell (bricklayer's labourer) being Reverely burned about the face, neck, aad arms. A, ventilator Was being 'put into tho strong room by the workmen. Brown weat into the room to light « gas jet, and the explosion took place.
Rich&rd Braithwa'i'.e, a farmer, committed suicide at Auckland yesterday by hanging himflelf in ». cowshed. Deceased, who was a single man, was in comfortable circumstances. There ?s no appErent'motive for the suicide.
Walter Lee, a victim of an accident on the Taviuni on MoDday, died, after ampliation of an. ipjured limb, through shock to the *y^tem.
Itis a. somewhat common sight to see children playiDg with railway trucks, and the very dar>gerou3 nature of the practice was exemplified the other evening when a boy named Thomas Smith got the flesh, torn off the calf of the leg light down to the bone. He was playing with the trucks behind Macfie and Oc 'c -vood and coal yard when his leg was caught in some part of the wheel. He was taken to the hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11046, 25 February 1898, Page 6
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