CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12044, 16 May 1901, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

DROWNING CASK AT TUK WIIAHR A ease of drowning occurred si the liattry street wharf about 8 o'clock lust evening, the victim lieim; a labourer, ranipd John Sffv.ai I, a '-itijjle m;m, nljoist 55 years of age, who had been living by hii;i=nlf in a house in (treat Kin;* street. Tit' l c'iv.kiiv stauees us reported to the |;otici' uift ns follo'.v.-:— A l.'oy nnnird Mnlllinv? railed :it Stc.vait'c house about 5 o'clr-!; h:-t evening, and t!;(! pair v.ent down t:i the ivlunf to iHi. Onjttv.rnins; iilony I'h' ltuf'rav s-Irft;{ • wharf Matthew* weiu on a little r.lrcd to j i - av row '■?rvrlj, and as lie did .-o he hwrd j a On looking round lie misred his ! t •onnvo-iup, r.nd immediately pave Hi? alarm. (S'imt k.i>;i ivurj.iii? near at hand rearrhed the i).:.(f where the incident occurred, but could sec nothing of the dereaset!. and the polite bein'i (oniim'nieatcd with, Constables Marshall and H:d;er the spot. Ahont 11 u'c.'col; llm body was recovered. An inquest will be held to-day.

if (Per United Press Association.) io AUCKLAND, Alay 15. " tl The dead body of a married woman named 7 Mrs AVooilhcad was found under tlw ccmeT ti'rr bridge. The c,in?o of death is unknown. r * The woman is said to been subject to fits. }' (Fnou Orp. Ow.v ConRF.SPOKDKNT.) !' (iRKYMOUTH, May 15. n The remains of a man were found to-daj i] in the ruins of the Hiclmiond quuy fie. ,t When tlio fire was discovered it had » firm n hold, and it was with difficulty the inv mates uero routed. Among tliein 0 n „ Ilowdtr. who it appears is a stranger, who \ It arrived from Wanganu l tlie day before ana ' nut u,, at Asi,ton's. On I'M ft 11 if o'clock ho wished Mr Aehton . „ and went to bed. On the alarm being raised Mr and Mrs Asiiton went to every room it and roused up the boarder?, so that .no ono . • t wcmld be left .taping. Miss O'Connor, who it was engaged in the hotel, rushed int d Howdcr's rriom to got some dresses, and siioke to him, telling him to hurry up .itnrt eet out. ilowdcr was dressing, and said "All right." This was the last that was heard of him. It is evident, ho must have got suffocated on his way down the. passage. ' ilu was apparently about 28 years of age. Yesterday afternoon a dog-cart, driven f ]>v Air Wright, of the ICaikorai, and a cab, driven by '.Mr I). Taylor, of St. Kilda.; collided in I'rincrs street, with the result that a shaft of the dog-cart struck one of 0 the cab hor.-rp and nearly disembowelled it. d T!io poor animal was taken out of the d vehicle and led to the Irani stables, where (, it was ,«hol. lloh' the accident exactly occurred ii imascerlainable. The driver of l ' the dog cart wa< thrown out, and sustained a severe gash' on his temple. A yuimjj man named Frank Paton met willi o serious evident at Miller's Flat on .Monday (says the 'l'tiapoka Tiints). Owing '' to a screw-jack slipping, the unfortunate fellow WHS pinned under a two-roomed house, , the weight .of tlio buiUliiib' resting on his " tbiglr. and one arm. The terrible pressure may be judged from the fact that the bottom " wrfatheriicard was bent up. and left an im- '[ print in Patoii's arm half an inch deep, and his thighs were flattened ojlt. His n limbs were badly crushcd and bruised, but no bonc3 were broken. ,e . -