CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13693, 8 September 1906, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

. fiT*6u Oox Owx COIMSfONDIKT.) OAMARU, Scptcmlvr 7, . An inquest was hold today, touching tilio (loath of a bo.v named Burns, before Major Ivcddell, coroner. The fcvidcnco disclosed that on the ~3oth August, as a train was crossing Severn street 011 its way south, the. lad got- in tho way of tho train, and was knocked down, and suffered injuries in the head, causing his death at. an early Eour . on the -6th W. D. Burns, father of the boy,; deposed that 110 was about 170 yards away from the crossing ■whsn ho saw his son very closo to tho railway line. Tho gap between the boy anil tho engine was then about 50 yards. As vtho-tram approached, the boy spun round and fell on the other , side of tho train, being'struck by tho engine. Mies Hair, a witness of tho incident from noar at hand, ■ deposed'that sho saw tho boy on tho line, and saw him struck by the -engine ami thrown down. Charles W. Kvans, enginedriver, in'*.his evidence, denied that;the boy was on tho line. ' Ho fa,w nothing' of him till after tho accident, but lie was eaitsfied tlio boy was struck by the side of tho engine. Tho ovidenoo of Dr Garland 1 . ■ was that death was duo to meningitis, superToning on fracture of tho skull, Tho jury . without retiring found a verdict of accidental death, 110 blame being -attachable to anwnp. (Pik Ukited Pbbss Association) _ HAMir.TOX. September 7. A middle-agc<l man'named Isaac Watts . Has working 011 tho Bartholomew tramway, jcar \ T ?atira, in a cutting, when a fall ooourrcd, sending him down tho shoot and .burying him completely. Some Maoris helped to "dig him out, and four of his -nates had to carry him on an improvised . stretcher <i milas over a rough bridle track in 45 minutes to catch the express at Ngatira.' Ho was brought to the AVailaio Hospital. whoro it was fouild that he Hid sustained a broken leg and 'severe bruises on the bnck.