CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1951, 11 April 1889, Page 28

CASUALTIES.

An accident occured at Ea3tbo-urne on the railway on Friday. The evening train forPalmerston No*th was nearing th* crossing when a child of four years of. ag^, ame d Guildford, crossed the metals, and tbfe driver not treeing him he was knocked, tlowu by the cowcatcher, but fortunately tha engine. did not go wer him. The doctor was sea* for at once, and said he was suffering frcaa fracture or the skull, and was lnternaUj injured. The boy is in a bad state, but it w hoped he will ultimately recover. F. Russell, captain of the volunteer corps afc woodville, committed suicide by shooting him- ; self in the drill hall on Saturday morning. , Kussell was a lineman in the telegraph office, and , had got into financial difficulties. Mrs M'Gee, wife of a miner at Brunnerton r , was caught by a truck coming down the incline from Coalpit Heath on Saturday morning. Her leg and arm were cut off. Tbe woman died almost immediately. She leaves a family of 13 children. The inspector of mines has been sent for in connection with the fatality. Alice Gunn, aged 30, wife of Alfred Gunn, dealer in patent medicines, was found dead in her room at the Fateee Hotel, Christchureb, on the 7 th. She aad her husband retired about 1 a.m., and bad some words. She lay down od the floor with a pillow under, her head. . Her , husbaud 1 catled for her about 10 and found her ; dead. A box, which had contained opium pills, i was found on tb.3 table empty. , A man named Samuel Templeton met with * nasty accident at the Hillside workshops on Toesday morning. By some means he got his hand 5 under a steam hammer which was-in.eperation, and the hammer descending, crushed the righthand very badly, causing a dislocation and- breaking one of the fingers. Ho was removed- : to the hospital* where he was attended by' the resident? jSwrgeon. , , > , , > . ■ One Lawrenco correspondent 1 telegraphed 1 ' on Tnpsdsy as follows :— Thisaf ternoon Mr Hngfc* ' M'Keohnie, miner, Tnapeka Mouth, reported-

to the. police that while coming up the river in his boat he noticed the body of a young man caught on a snag in the Molyneux The place where the body is caught is about midway between Tyson's Sawmill and his own claim. It is thought it may be the body of young Shiel, of jfliller's flat, who was drowned about two fiSon'ths dgd. The police visit the spot totHotitiWi whefi farthef particulars will be obtained.