CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 15

CASUALTIES.

A child, four years old, the daughter of Edward Fitzpatriok of Auckland, was playing near a flro when her clothes caught alight. She died from the injuries. A young man named Daniel Gallran, of Rangiriri, Auckland, was injured while bush falling by a tree falling on him. It is believed his spine ia injured. He was carried by bid mates 15 miles to the Rangiriri railway station through bush, awamp, and creeks. A fatal accident occurred on the Goro railway bridge at 530 p.m. on Saturday. An old and well-kuown resident of Gore, Mr Hector Kilpatrick, a shepherd, was run over by & fourhorse waggon as he was returning homo over: the bridge. He was removed at oucq to the bridgekeeper's but, and Dr Copland, who was passing at the time, was called in, but he found no aid could avail, and the man expired shortly after. A little boy about two years of age, eon of John Sommerville, farmer, near Milton,' was drowned in a creek close to las fathe.'s house at about 10 o'clock on Friday morning. Two fishermen named Edward Lake and David Wintou fouud between 6 and 7 ■ o'clock on Saturday morning, off Rofhesay, the body of William Fiddis, who was drowned in the late boatiDg fatality. The body was removed to the parents' residence. Herbert Richards, aged 22, was killed while bushfelling near Tikorangi, Taranaki, on Friday. A young man named Frank Bdnnett, of Parnell, Auckland, who was accidentally jambed against a post by a cart while riding on the Brighton road, died at the hospital of lockjaw. A man named John Bates was admitted to the hospital on Monday suffering from an injury to his thigh caused by falling against the kerb* ing of a footpath at Milton. .