CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 49

CASUALTIES.

O.ir T.>panui coire'pndoit wiiUs: — 'An old ago p"i.Morer name I Akxdi 1 '! i W;i '.nc •> died f.ddtJi'ly at CiooLstcn on S'l.ulav, 24th nit. He v.a» returning fiom church in company w.^h Mr -and Mr.- Alt x. lua:iie-cn. nvd ;aid he would toke a re°t, as he felt soir o thni;r in hi* hrea<-t. Ho *at dow-i f<-v :i nuMite- or ."<>, :>nct thnp. spying he felt belter. ro-e>, but the words were laidiy uttcrsd when he dropped a lantern he was tairying and ft 11. Ho was remo\ed to his ■hut ar'l Ih- Rubn t-r>:i som fir. Consta!>'» Cowan had tho body brought 1o Tananui. and an i'iquc~>t was h-:ld beforo Mr W. Qmn (acting-coro i »r). resulting in a \erditt of death from nptiual causes. Decra'ed was about 70 ytar9 of age. a.; id was «teetaed by Crookston settlers, by whom ho v, as we-U looked aft'-r. He had be s n complaining for soioo time, and lus lungs v.oro apparently far gone. He is supposed to ha*, c been a na-tive of Peith?hir&, Scotland, and an old miner by occupation. Of lite years he had devoted his attention to poultry-raising." Tha=o Kumara workmen who went to Dusky Sound to do gome road-making returned to Kumara the other day. The Kumara. Times thus describes an accide-nt that happened to one of the party, named Schroder, on April 6: — Ho was cutting away the timber on a sidling, round a high reef where thf* road was to bo made, and had just about finished felling tho tree, when tlie whole earth around the reef flipped fully 120 ft down a precipice. Some of the men working not far off shouted, "Look out : the ■♦idling is slipping." Schroder, on feeling the earth giving way, made a desperate leap to grasp the eapling above him, and but for this a.-tion nothing could have raved him from being buried alive. Hugo troe.> were snapped like matchwood on the way down; as it was, Schroder went down on top of the slip. "When tho slip stopped moving he. was covered up to above his knees in the debris. After considerable difficulties the- men succeeded in making and lowering a stretcher. When Schroder was relieved and placed upon the stretcher, tho question wa3, How were they to get their burden up bliat preeipioe? So by lifting the stretcher at arm?' length above their heads they p3==cd their comrade from one to another until they landed him fafe-ly on top. The mates attended to his wants, and it was at first thought that his le^ was broken, but fortunately he- escaped with a bruised and sprained ankle, a gash on tho knee, and otliT bruisea about the body. John Bigolow. injured by a fall in the Calliope Dock, died in the Auckland Hospital. As tho early train was going from Duncdiu to Port Chalmers on Wednesday, 27th ult., tho body of a ma,n was observed floating in shallow water about 30ft from the embankment, at Blanket Bay, in the vicinity of Sawyer.' Bay. On tho tra-in reaching Port Hhalniers ir formation of what had been &esn was given to Sergeant G-eerin, and the official on a ppecial train coming up from tho Port received instructions to take the body out of the water. Tina was done, and the police subsequently removed the body — which proved to bo that of Richard Jones, a gardener in tho employ of Mr John Peterson, of St. Leonards — to the morgue at Port Chalmers. Jones was about 45 years of age, a widower, and leaves one young child. He had beon somewhat peculiar in his mind lately, and appeared to be suffering for inedancliuha. Ho wsv» at work the pre\ious afternoon, and tho last seen of him was at 3 o'clock, when ho dressed himself and went away, presumably to town. His body had apparently been in tin) water several hours, and from the condition m winch tho man wa- s found tho supposition is that he either got into tho wxtcr by some mMohane". probably by falling ovit tli« railway c:nba»krm nt, or that his state of mind induced him to ronim.it tmoide. The body of an elderly man, Pa-trick Fee, of Ol*reuoe strict. I'cnsonby. Auck laud, was found m the hailviur. No P\ltl'i'ioe i^ forthcoming a« to how tho fatality oct-urreil. At tho inqmst a verdict of "Found drowned" was returned. It tianspired that Fee had been an mma.t-o of tho .Se-acliff Apvlum for four months eight or nine year.* ago. A fatal s-l'oo*in'» aro:dent occurred at Oiva'm. HawkoN Bay, on th 1 * 27th. Niko Meiharij, aged ab.nit 18, who waij ciMfagpd in feeding a hor<=e, picked up a spin to i-hoot a, bud. He stumbWl, and the (run duchaigc<l, ti'o full clmrge ent-ering the bTv's neck. Death w.ii» in»tantaiieou' In th« junior foot^a'l m.itch Mai ton ngaipst Rat». at Rata, T/eshe M'lndoe, playing for the former club, had hi" leg brokeWl lie worlcn^ on th* Britannic ro.->d, Westpo't, Michael O'Kerf". in the orrploy of the County Council had t1.3 calf of Jus lei? piprecd by a brcJ'c«»n limb of a tree, and was taken to the ho--piuJ. It is lep^rled from AutVUnd thi* a. your? farmer name<l David William Walkor v. a-» fouiid drowned oa 23th n't. in a wcJl on h^> farm at Mu*ahura. It m s>iippc.«ed ho fr-'l in »eo'<leiitally. Fflwin F-->-rK\i>«>n (21) M' found d«\d on 29th ult at t!>e bottom of the cliff at B<-n nislor. Tic loft a Kmiyoncc at 9 o'olcck the previous ni^ht. ?'i'l it l« sup posed that he rui'-wl !• h way He fell 65ft. H'j Et^pk was broken An mqif't wi« he 1 '! -\t, P'.iri^crhi'rdi on Fiidav on Henry Dcigh'.on, foup-l 'lead in tb" \Vai'T\akariii Rivi*r b"-d ab^u' si\ yards from Ih' water on the ?Fth n't Th» jury ret.imii d a verdict of "'Do'ith f r cm heart d.-raso" Dull' »n Fra-' r aw o'.t^ v'y ,r,-n. a M.iKcn < -si-k. <lr->pi>^(l di*<ul in thi* man. &t:e^t .'if Tira,-rii on Fr uSv, 23ih ult. ff r on^ lu-a.t ill- fvs Nr-t'un^ i~ known i "'«r>rd i.? l.un Otorjo llcr.iv Ciirp. ol O.u Si >tk De

paitmert, accidentally foil i'.ilo the Omaka K>\.r. ?>lai!borv-jv;h, on Saturday night, and was diowiicd. Tl.e bo-ly wa- iecc\erod. Dcceasid leaves a widow iii Ciristchurch and a da'i~ht<T re-ident in Wellmglcn. He was a 1 elcii. lly man

At t'. o Xel-on loeki-up at noon on tho 2nd .Tohn Wilson, aged 52. an ex fireman of the -r-vinw \Va\trlcy, o-i rum^'id on a charge of =tealmg £5 from the trailer Doc'o, cut h < jugular lein with a dinner knife He died as scon as me', cal ail armcl. his la c t word* bring. ''My poor wife " WiUon hal been rational and ch^eiful all the morcir; A («»v minutes prev.o'i' to the suicide tli^ 5 lgfa- t left him at hi* dinner with a knif--&nd frrk Hn w -cloy.- ai d fon recently left Auckland to lc-idc w.th frmnde m Welling ton. Wil-on had boon out of work. TIIIS and the charge preyed on hi- mind.

Tiie body of Ti.oma* (lien, m:«s,n<s from Waitati -me? l'rid.iv, iMid «uiipo. s^d to be dK«ned, was Unni'l m tho WaiUiti Rl^cl■ r.oai the lii'bnite^' Home en the 2nd iu*t.

A mnn nam~d Dona'd }i[ii!iro R'. 1-^.1 -^. ac p d 73 year-. fcrin"ily a canlener. was t.>k^n 5 iddpidy ill at hi« rr.-i.uiro m (!rant slicfr („ft Hijrh c-nct-t) ji'-t b-forr. noon ou the 2iul Dr (lorcUn Mac lonaal. who hod muiicnlly «ittcnd<-d K^-> l^r wan- year=, iva; sent io' - . but b< ¥ f »rf he arrive'l the jiidict wa- c'c'id. An nitfe-t was he'd in tiio nft^noon be- fore Mr C C. Cliaham. coioner. I>. uK-nco was given by cVceapod's >on aixl daiiffliter a*:J by Dr ilacdona'd, wlio -tat°d tnat death na« duo to hparc disease, fi oni wlnci' complaint dfe?a-ed liid -uTcrcd for a r ->i •. t'erdble t.mo A lerc'.ft was returr.^d in accordance with the rp^'ical tcsti I. O'lV.

()\\<n Miifhe' 1 . £.r o''l identity. was burnt to --'.^at'i -.it Rllllll, W.C ,on tU> 3rt). His c-otta;,e wa.c fcund to be <~n £ii>. and when the body w?s diocoveiod iv the rm: v it v.as i>r<if titaliv a cmd B r. (ifor^p A. Young, ff^mprly of Wc:tpor+. iv?- accidentally sho: d^id near Dunsaudcl, C.inTPrl-urv, on the 3rc'

Two Dunrdiu travc'!*"*=, named Lloyd end Leonard, had a vrry narrow e.=e:ip<s from drowTuiifr (writ 0 ? or Milton correspondent) on ThumKy afternoon. While driving round the Clarksville dUlr'et, and in erasing the flooded rner at Ha'ily's ford, the trap suddenly wont down a.nd tho horse. wa.s carried off its feet Th". current swept the occupants out, nnd Mr Lecn?rd, who is unable to swim, waj luckily caught by a tr<?e in the river. Mr Lloyd had an anxious tiun» getting clear of the trap, and «waui out, finally Tesciunp; his friend from his perilous position. Horse and trap, samples, etc., all were lost. an'l. as can bo imagined, this means a serious loss to tho travellers.

Jean Bruce, a married woman li\ing in Athol Place, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday night suffering from a bioken le?. It oppoars she was walking down Hanover street, and slipped on a frwty pavement, -vvit'i the result mentioned. The injured limb was set at the Hospital. A boy named Albert refer Hansen, seven years of a.ge, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday night, badly burnt about the body. Tho hi tic follow was playing near an open fire in his home, when his clothing became ignited, and before fche flames could bo extinguished he was burned about the face and boc'3'. His injuries were attended to and he was then brought" to town for treatment at the Hospital. He ia stiil Fiiffeiing from the severe shook sustained, but there is every prospect of his recovery.