CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 28

CASUALTIES.

Mr Reeves, keeppr at the Cape Foulwmd j lighthouse, the other day fell down a flight of Ptairs and was rendered unconscious From particulars furnished to the Tuapeka Time/? relative to the death by droi\ rung of M~ Redpath. who was engaged at Waipcri sime time sirce to go out to tho Malay Peninsula as dredgemaMer for an English syndicate, it appears that the party went down to the river at 6.15 a in. on the day of the accident, as they had done for the last six months, and dived in on© after another. Redpath was tho last to jump m, and as he pa=ssd one of the others he showed signs of struggling, and although two oxher members of the party — Lutjens and Petrie— mad? stre-nuou 51 efforts to save l.im, he was last seen a little further down the stream. Steps were pfterwards made to rf-cover the body, but without avail. An inquest was commraced on Thursday at Wellington into the circumbiacces .sr,rrotrndia.g the death of a boy named Adam Hunter Brown, aged six year«, of "Wairoa. Hawke's Bay, who succumbed while being operated upon for an affection of the eyes in a private hospital. Dr van Slyke, who performed the operation, said thai ho had taken all the precautions necessary. He did not think it wocld have been of any advantage if he lia-d hat l a second m-edical mail present, as the operation was a nvnor one. He had s-aut for another doctor as soon as he noticed the collapse of the patient, and both had used every effort to restore aoimalion. The jury returner! n verdict "That death was duo to misadventure," adding a rider that the- operating «urgpon committed tax error of judgment in not having an ai!!E=thetist present. Jose-ph Kennedy, 17 years of age, was crushed by a runaway truck on the Millerton incline. His leg was broken, and he received internal injuries. Ho died in the hospital on Saturday night. At dusk on Friday uiglit a man walking ?!ong the South BcacM. four miks from Hokitika, sa-.r tie ' body of a hiimeti being in. the e urf. Ke recovered the remains, which proved to be those of an elderly man, partly dreased, and apparently bald. The head and face were somewhat disfigured. The body was later identified as that of John Grey, an okl man working below Mikonui, south of Rosa, who has been misring 1 «,sinoe Sunday. It is believed ho has been drowned while attempting to cross the river on foot when tlie stream wag in slight flood, but r.o particulars are to hand. The Auckland Herald's Taranaki correspondent supplies additional particulars of the traction engine accident, with reference t<> which a telegram was published a few dayo r-go. It appears that the drhor. J. Gledhill, who was killed, was assisted by a man named Kennedy. Plariks were placed on tho bridge, which is situated in the Junction road near Inglewood, before they started to go across it, but the wheels of the engine evidently got off the planks near the centre of the bridge, and the engine, together with a track, went clean through. The- crash was heard for a distance of over a mile, and many of the people living near hastened to the scene. Gledhill was fouud to be quite dead, the truck having fallen on him, while Kennedy was <*ev>ri.ly iujiired and was conveyed to the New Plymouth Hospital. The body of Je&sie Smith, an elderly woman, v;a3 fouud in a tank at the back of her house at Te Aioha on Saturday. After deceased disappeared, & week ago, saareh parties were out. but the< tank was overlooked. Thfl woman came out of the lunntic 9-ylum ehortly before her disappearance. A yonnqr man named "Warehain, who was injured at Totaraimaka on Friday, died on Saturday afternoon u< tha hospital. An inquest was held, wlien a verdict cf accidental dealh was returned An inquest was held on Saturday on t\*e man John Aidridge, of Picton, who collapsed while under chloroform for a purgical operation A verdict of death from syncope, no blame being attachable to the doctors, was returned On Satin day night about 9 o'clock Peter R*tt(»-a.v. n dairyrn-tn at Trevarlon. a suburb of Ashhurtom." and an old resident, fell down in the street near Iris house and expired before a doctor arrived. It is supposed the cause was apoplexy. He had been c-ornp^imng about pains in the bead of late, but otherwise was in bis usual health, and «a« following his avocation. An elderly woman named Tjoiv^ey. wife of a settlor at Tvurow, vra-> burnt to death on Mondsy by falling into the fire.placo of the locm plip oecuoved. Wlisn found she was dead, with her faen and Jm.id terribly burned. Arthur Galbradth, ira\elhng agent for th<& Equitable Life Insurance Conmanv. loi-t bis left aim by a gun acident at Cheviot on Sunday. Tli" ske'eton of a man found on a hill Tioar Moicre is suppo-ed to be the remains of Robert Clifford, who disappeared about 13 inmiths ago. The clothing was much rottc-d.

THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE

RAILWAYS

KAPIER. August 27. A railway fireman naniod Wellington was run over by a truck at Te Ante this morning, ard fpceired sur-h serious injnriPS tliat he succumbed on the arrival of the train at Hastings

-August 28. An inquest was held to-day on the body of .T A Wellington railway fireman, who was ki'le<! yn^lprday it Te Aiite by being run over by the engine whilp it was being taken to tlie taiiLs to get wat-er Thr evidence of the driver and guard showed that de-ceased w*« standraig on thp footplate of the engine. 1)u; suddenly ciipappetired unobserved, until a bump by tlie engine attracted attf-iition to the fact that the fireman was not in his place on tho engine, and on looking along the line lie was seen lyrig aoro«<* the raile. Bey.md an ejaculation * Oh ' " when first picked up he never spoke, and died just affpr the train reached Hastings, hi* spine being broken. There is no evidence as to how t!i^ accident happened, and the inquest wat- odjoumfd u:atil to morrow in order to asccriain it thp mishap had been observed by any passenger.

August 29 At tho arljourncrl ir quest on .1 A. W«-l-lnigUvn. who wa 1 ? killed through j> truck running over him at Te Puto railway gtawonj » verdict of " Acoid^njiftl dea,tV %84.

returned. None of the witnesses co«ld state how tbo accident occurred, but it would appear that dccea-3«d slipped on the foothoard of the engine.

WANGANTI, August 27

A fatal accident occurred this morning through the incoming south tram colliding v-ith a 'bus at the Aramoho crossing, close t:> the railway bridge. The engine whistled before coming on the bridge and whiJe on the bridge, but the driver of the "Ims apparently took no notieo. and the engine struck the vehicle fair in the centre. The enginedriver saw the "bus just before the collision, and applied the Westinghonso brake, and brought the train to a standstill, but not before the 'bua and horses had been carried o\er the railway stops. The driver of the 'bus fell. ar>d wa.; caught by the cowcatcher, and was taken f'-om under it in a state of collapse He died on the way to the hospital. Fortunately, only two passengers were in the 'bus. One passenger — an old lady — sustained a deep gash on the head, an'l a little girl escaped unhurt. The conductor of the 'bus ali-o escaped unhurt, having jumped off. There were three horses in the 'bus. The deceased driver V name was Ennis, and he was part proprietor of f'-i 'bu= wrvice between "Waxigamy and Aramoho, and was an elderly man-.

August 23.

At the inquest on the body of Robert Eunis, 'hu6 proprietor, wbo was run over by a truin, a \erdict of accidental death was re-turned, no blame being attached to anvorre.

(Fkou Our Ows Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH. August 27.

Tho neglect of the Railway Department to c-nlarge the railway accommodation of Lytte'ton, although repeatedly urged to do so by the Harbour Board, was largely responsible for the fatal accident at the port to-day, when a railway guard named Frederick Snow den was cnt to pieces. He was engaged iv making up the 10.40 a.m. goods trs-in from Lyttpltou lo ChriKtchurch. Hia train was standmp. and a train loaded with coal wa-: going :i» the opposite direction to the other. He took the lamp -off the rear truck of liis train and stepped Ivack on one- of the two parallel lines of rails to the other line in front of the advancing waggon, which apparently be did not see. The body was horribly mangled. The head was almost cnt off, the- right hand was severed, as was the right leg at the knee.