CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2390, 21 December 1899, Page 17

CASUALTIES.

Stephen Lambert, lumper at Lyttelton, fell 35ft into the hold of the ship Thessaias on the 13th. He sustained a fracture of the base of the skull and broke his right wrist and several ribs.

One of the two-ton cranes used on the wharf capsized^ while a heavy weight was being lifted. Several of those working the crane Avere knocked down, and a bystander had his forehead badly cut, being rendered unconscious. He was taken aboard the Star of Australia, where he was attended by Dr Pabst. A boat belonging to H.M.S. Mildura was accidentally run down in the harbour by a ferry steamer. One sailor jumped overboard from the launch and swam to the wharf.

An elderly woman named Jessie White, residing at Ravensbourne, was brought into the hospital on Thursday night suffering from a broken thigh. The injury was sustained through slipping on a stone in the street just as she was leaving a friend's house to go home.

The Lyt.telton Times reports that, during the practice of the Otago cricketers at Lancaster Park on Wednesday, J. Baker had his lip badly cut by a ball which struck him in the face. He was taken to the Strathmore Hospital, where the wound was stitched up.

A son of Mr C. Lewis, of Mokohinui, aged live years, met with a shocking accident on Friday last, which resulted in his death. While playing in the kitchen he stumbled and fell into the fireplace. In endeavouring to save himself he grasped a kettle, which was full of boiling water, pulling the contents over himself, with the result that he was fearfully scalded. He became xinconscious soon after, and lingered on till Saturday night, when he succumbed.

A lieefton contemporary records a mining fatality ■which caused the death of Mr Patrick Sweeney, in the Globe mine on Friday evening. It appears that at 8 p.m. he and his mate had partaken of crib at the half-time of the shift, when Sweeney went to the face and tiied some overhanging stone, probably with a view of testing its safety. A heavy fall took place landing on Sweeney's body, whicli had to be removed with crowbars and after much exertion.

John Tait, aged 25, a native of Orkney, and winchman on the steamer Pukaki, which he joined at Auckland a few days ago, was struck on the head al Timaru by a piece of falling gear, and died in the hospital a few hours later. At the inquest the evidence showed that the wire rope guy of the derrick when unshackled swung down through the slipping of knots in the rop"e that should have held it, a-nd, hitting deceased, fractured his skull. A verdict was returned of accidental death, the jury recommending more precaution in such cas-cs.

A man named Robert Tapp, 50 years of age, was received into the hospital on Saturday from Purekireki, in the Catlins district, suffering from a fractured leg. He was working at the roof of a shed, when the ladder on which he was standing Flipped. In falling Tapp's right leg was caught in the rungs of the ladder and received a nasty fracture.

A lad 12 years of age, named James H. Hodge, son of a railway engine-driver, was drownd at Wanganiii on Friday evening. The body was recovered.

Mrs Thomas Crow, of Makarewa, who was severely injured some months back by a buggy accident, died in the Invercargill hospital on Friday. One of her sons is a member of the New Zealand contingent serving in South Africa.

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