CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2479, 18 September 1901, Page 19

CASUALTIES.

John Cotterall, aged 57, who was employed as fencer on the railway works at Idaburn. died suddenly whilst swallowing a piece of meat. The encumstanees have been reported to the coroner.

The scow Oban, 40 tons, was struck by a squall and capsized ai 1 o'clock on Thiirsday morning, off Ketu Bay, Pelorus Sound. Captain Bonnon and his son clurg to the vessel, and were repcued about 8 o'clock. The other member of the crew, a Swede, Andrew Anderson by name, wad drowned. The Oban was in ballast from Wanganui to Pelorus for a cargo of limber. A little girl named Daisy Taylor, whose parents reside in .Frederick street, was knocked clown by a cyclist while playing on the road on Thursday afternooii. Tho child was severely injured, and was taken to the Hospital, when it was found that her left leg was broken. The child was attended to and the leg set, after which she was conveyed to her.aßome. A young man named Robert Dovey, while cycling along ihe Sawyers' liay road on Thursday afternoon, ran into a ience, and fractured his collar-bone. He was attended to by Dr Borric, of Port Chalmers. An elderly man named M'i»aren had a narrow escape from serious accident at the Milton railway station on Saturday. H« was knocked down by the -express, but, fortunately, was thrown clear of the line, and escaped with a few broken ribs. Tho body of James Lambert, late of Woodville, was found in Mechanics' Bay. Deceased had been despondent and suffering from insomnia. Our Wakatipu correspondent telegraphs that a young man named M'Grath, who has been in failing health for some time, was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning. He had resided in Arrow town foi pome time.

The Alexandra Herald states that a young man named James M'Gratli was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning last. He Lad been in ill-health for some time, and on Tuesday afternoon, thinking lie had the influenza, took to bed. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause of death. A girl named Caroline Morgan, 12 years of age, and living at Woodside, met with an accident on Friday. She was running down a hill, and stumbled, falling rather heavily. She sustained a. fracture of the left leg, and was brought into town by the 6 o'clock train for treatment at the Hospital.

An inquest was held at Abbotef ord on Friday morning before Mr O. C. Graham, coroner, on the body of the infant child of James and Annie Wilkinson. Evidence was given by the father and mother of the child and by Dr Will, after which the juiy returned a verdict in accordance, that death was due to natural causes. James Morgan, belonging to Lyttelton, was brought clow n from Kaipara with both legs broken, the result of an accident on the schooner Huia. He is doing well considering his serious injuries. A man named Walter M'Ennis had two of his fingers crushed on Monday through his hand being caught in a spoke machine while working at Messrs Reid and Gray's factory. He' was taken to the Hospital, where his injuries were attended to.