CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 29

CASUALTIES.

Mr John Green, of Chvaka Yal'ey. who is over 70 years of age, fell to the ground from' the top of a stack and, unhappily, sustained serious internal injuries, in addition to having his loft leg broken in the thigh and just below the hip joint and his hit '■shoulder dislocated. The old gentleman is highly respected, and it is hoped he may econ recover, being a very strong and vigorous man ; but at his age- such injuries are veryserious. A collision bet.vee/i the electric tramcar and a waggon team in Auckland resulted in Daniel Munro, driver of the waggon, getting und*r the front of the tramcar sad receiving suoh severe injuries to his head that he had lo be removed to the hospital. The motorman was severely bruised. Both horses wer« i-hrown down in the collision, but not injured. The horses shying at an approaching railway irain contributed to the accident. The injured man died in the Hohpital on Monday. While attempting to stop a runaway horse at Kaiapoi 011 the 4th J. O'Neill was run o\er and seriously injured. Tide Wave, carrying H. Collins, at the Cliristchurch Hunt Club's meeting at Lawford on the sth, fell at a tricky fence and broke his neck. Collins sustained concussion of the brain,. He recovered consciousness at the hospital. Jamoi Matthews, an employee of the Westport Coal Company at De.nnitstcm, araie as usual on the (morning 1 of the sth, gave his wife a cup of tea, and lay down on a couch with a charge of dynamite, which blew his head and hands off. No reason is assigned for the suicide. Our Palmerstcm correspondent writes that there was a marrellojs escape from a fatal accident at Palmerston on the sth. About 11 a.m., as Donald M'Donald, one of the porters, was engaged in shunting operations, he lost his footing in some unexplained manner and foil across the rails in front of the engine tender. Instead of being run over he was rolled along the rails for some distance by the wheels of the tender, and miraculously escaped with a severe flesh wound on the thigh and a light shock. Messrs E. H. Clark and R. Wheeler randsred first aid when the man was picked up, and Dr Hislop dressed the wound on his arrival. M'Donald will, of course, be incapacitated for some weeki?. A fatal accident occurred at Sentry Hill Taranaki. A man mamed Wood, employed with a threshing- machine, which was being shifted by moonlight between 8 and 9 o'clock, got between the engine and the combine, and was crushed in the chest. He lingered a short while, but expired before a doctor arrived. Deceased was the man who was in company with P. George when ■the latter a few days back was thrown, from a bicycle and killed while on the way to Sentry Hill. At "the inquest on Lucy Morris Shannon at Christchurch on the 6th evidence was given that Dr Davenport stated that he tasted the medicine prescribed by Dr Clayton, and said there was arsenic in it. Some vomit, retched before death, was analysed by a chemist, and alleged to contain arsenic. Dr Clayton denied there was arsenic in the medicine prescribed for deceased, who had a oomplainit of the heart and liver trouble. Dr Syines, who made a po^t mortem examination, attributed death to blood poisoning, caused by the imperfect action of the kidneys. There was no trace of any poison. Dr Morton Anderson supported this statement, and Professor Eickerton, who analysed the vomit, stomach, and liver, forad no trace of arsenic, or other poison. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with Dr Symc-'s evidence. While working ft, reaper and binder on his farm at Toiro on Thursday Mr John Munro got his leg badly out with the knives. Ho had got down to clean the fingers on the machine, when the horses started cfr. The bone of the limb was nearly cut through, and the sufferer lost a large quantity of blood. Dr Stenhouso \var> called in, and the patient is now doing as well as could be expected.— Freo Press. John Sutherland Georee, W) years, fingk\ a plumber, residing 1 at Nortlicote, Auckland, committed suicide- on Friday by cutting his throat. An aged Maori named Tonvnv Te Waaka committed suicide near T.ittls Riwr, Canterbury, on Thursday by shooting himself. A man named Taylor, residing in Inglewood, employed on the railway, attempted to cut his throat about 7 n.m. on Friday last. Dr Harding was called in and dre-sed the wound, after which the man was taken to New Plymouth Hospital. He will probably recover. Two men — W. Cornth waits ami Parry, — engaged at No. 5 shaft on the Waihi mine, fell some' distance. Parry wan killed outright, p.nil Cornthwaite sustained terrible cuts on the head and other in juries, and is not expected to recover. The accident occurred at midnight. Eoth were well known and highly respected. If the accident results in the rleath of Cornthwaito as well as Parry, it will make a total of five miners killed in the Waiiii mriie during the last five week?, in addition to one man wiio lc«t his life in the Talisman mm* 1 . There lias been an extraordinary run of ruining accidents recently, resulting in a very large total of claims upon the Accident Insurance Fund. Harry Henderson, a well known flourmilW nt Masterton, N. 1., was killed at 1.30 on Saturday by a kick on the head from a horse. A lad named Ciarlee Blake, run over by a brake at Mart inbo rough on Wednesday, died on Friday. Frank Healy fell off a loati 01 hay at Chrisu-hureh on Friday, reviving injuries to his back, from which lie died on Saturday afternoon at the licvpital. John Munro. a farmer, acred 56, died at Toiro, near Rfi'clntha, on Friday evening from tho effects of injuries ivreive<' to li is leg on Thursday through gettii.g caught in a reaper and binder. A man named Benjamin Mar! in. aged 72, residing in Prince? street south, war admitted to the Hospital on Sunday suffering from the effects of a broken arm. It appears that by a fall a week ago lie had fractured a bone in the arm, but it took some time in the setting, and it was thought

he could receive more coastant attention in the Hospital. A child (named Brown, nine months old, died in a train from Southbridge, Canterbury, on Monday. At the inquest a verdict of "Death, from consumption of the bowels" was returned. At the adjourned inquest on E. Y. Simpson, Professor Bickerton, who mado an analysis, deposed to finding a considerable quantity of arsenic in deceased's stomach. A verdict was returned of " Suicide while temporarily insane."