CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 23

CASUALTIES.

Details of the sadden death of D. B. Cruickshank, chairman of the Northern Steamship Co., Auckland, show that shortly after dinner, while sitting quietly, he complained of a pain ab his heart, which he at first appeared to regard as bat a slight attack, bub ib inoreasod In severity, and in 15 minutes from the seizure he expired. The deceased gentleman was 52 years of age, and a native of Sb. Andrews, Fifeshire. He arrived in the colony in 1864. He leaves a widow (a daughter of the iato Mr Robert Graham) and' three sons and two daughters. The flags on the shipping and in town w«re at half-mast bo-day. Dr Haines m»de a post mortem and found that the cause of death was ossification cf the aort*. The body of John Climo, fisherman, drowned ab Wanganui heads on the 21sb April, was found on the Bbh and an inquest held next afternoon, the verdict being to the effecb that death resulted through accident. A rider was added expressing appreciation of the nobie conducb of Duncan M -Arthur and Anbonio Bobich, who rtscued the two men who were with Climo ab the time of the accidenb. James Morrell, of the Waimamaku Cantorbury special settlement, Hoki»nga, had his arm crushed by a falling tree. The limb was amputated in the Auckland Hospital, bub Morrell died on the night of the Bth. Henry Crabtree, aged thea yeara, fdl off a load of wood on which he had been given a ride at G : sborne, and the dray, which was driven by his father, passed over his face, killing him insfciutly. The body of Alfred Walker, who was drowred near Ormond, Hawke's Bay, on the 26th vlb , has hem reoovered. Ab the inquenb on Walter Stewarb, son of Mr R. O. Stewart, a former magistrate ab bhe Thames, a verdict of "Accidenbal drowning" wag returned. A man aboub 30 years of age, named Joseph Stewart, was received into the hospital on Friday, suffering from a broken arm and log. He was driving a vehicle aud bwo horses about a week ago near Clinton, and, getting out of the conveyance, reached for the. reins. The horses became restive and went close to the side of the road, where some ecmb was growing, and Stewarb fell, and the wheel passed ov*r the rfghb arm j and leg, fracturing them both. He was j attended in the first iaabance by Dr Smith, of Balclutha. j Mr John Daviß, an old and respected miner residiug ab Cambrians, mob with a- nasty accident on the afternoon of the 4&h innfc. Mr Davis was ab work in his claim (which is I situa'ed between Matakanui and Cambrians — fully two miles from the latter), and, when j working c!o;e up bo a deep ftce in a stooping posibion, part of the face became disintvgratad, falling on the side of his neck, breaking the jawbone in two places and lacerating tho side of the face and eje. His neck was also badly injured, bub to what extent cannot be ascertained owing bo the head being very much swollen. The sufferer lies in a critical state at present, but is under the careful attendance of Dr Ward. Mr Davis is one of th%, pioneers of Cambrians, and has reacted the age of 76 years. Kathleen Elizvbeti M'Swesney, aged two yearn, was scalded to death at Belfast, Canterbury, on Saturday evening through falling into a bith of bjiliug water. An inquest waß held before Mr E H. Caraw, district coroner, on Monday afternoon upon the body of a child named Alfreda Beatrice Healey, 10 weeks old, who was found dead in bed early on Sunday morning. Th« mother retired to bed with the child on Saturday nighb, and when she awoke in the morning found her dead in hf v ann 3. Th<s father and another child also slept in the same bed. The deceased had been Buffering for six weeks pasb from whoopiog dough, and the evidence of Dr John Macdonald went to show tbaf; the cause of death wat collapse of the lung from whooping cough. Alexander Healey (the father) and Annie Healey (bh« mother) were the other witnesses examined. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with the medical testimony. A man named John Wadaworth was admitted into the hospibal on Monday, suffering from a fracture of the lefb leg. He was holding a horse by bhe bridle and leading ib over a bridge at the North-Bast Valley, when it jerked its head up suddenly and knocked him over, causing the iujury before mentioned.