CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2574, 15 July 1903, Page 35

CASUALTIES.

James Eclf?e, maintenance contractor at Lyell, committed suicide on tl o 7th by hanging himself to a tree.

A very sad accident -happened at Greendale. Ganterbuiy, cai bhe 3rd to James Watson Rudd, the youngest eon of Mr Charles Rudd. The boy. after coming home from school, went out to accompany his father to the paddock with a small load of straw. He was riding on the load, when the wind blew it over, the lad falling on the end of a fork handle, which struck him above the ball of tho left eye. In a semi-conscious state he was taken up, and Dt Howard sent foT. After a time he seemod to lose consciousness, and lingered on till 7 o'clock on Saturday night, when he died.

An old man named James Kerney, aged 86 years, wa« found dead in his hut at Waikaia- on Monday morning, 6th. It has not been deemed neoeesary to hold an inquost, as the deceased had been very frail for pome time prior to his death. — Southern Standard. •

A man named Livingstone, who was working on a chaff cut ting machine at Temuka, lirvd a nasty arcitlmt on Monday afternoon He wa.s engaged freding Hie machine wlion he allowed his hand to enter thf» grips wiHi a f-heaf of out*, with the result that the hand wpp Un ' • Ipp-eratod. Fortun-ate'v, he had tl.r ) > of mind to reverre tho machinery, < ••-->. his hand would have beon amour knives, wkn the conseqneno^s wcu'.l !.a>> Lcosi iruih worse. William Cam^m. a s>\a"eer, clieTl suddenly at MuraokaVaho, Hawke's Bay. He ?rii\rd at the <=♦ ition on tho 7t'i, ard died ijp.\t p^oi'ui l " ?'t r r a 'sharp naioxyNm of coiminiii'. As a r.-i'lt <.' hy ; n« to boaid a train v-lnle in motion a Maori named Pcilia

Ratana, about 30 years of «#e, and married, was killed at larasina, Hawke'a Bay. Ta van pa&sd right over the body, which was horribly mangled. ■• William Eccle on, aged 40 yean, and ft bush contractor, was killed at Mercury Bay, Auckland, by a log felling on him. At the inauiest aj Wangamii on tlte body of Poaha Ratana, who was run over by a train on Wednesday evening, a verdict of accidental death vjas returned, no blama being attachable to anyone. The danger of railway passengers stand--ing carelessly on carriage platforms was again exemplified on Thursday, when n. man named David Ritchie, probably about 30 years of age, who resides at Musselburgh, had a narrow escape from a serious accident. Ritchie was a passenger by .one of the trains coming up to Dunedin between 7 and 8 o'clock, and when the train was near Pelichet Bay, by some means which, he cannot explain, he lost his footing ancß fell off the carriage. Fortunately the train, was not travelling very fast, but tho mart had his right ankle badly sprained and hia head severely cut, in addition to hia back being badly bruised. He was pdmi-tted to "the Hospital, where he will probably have to remain for about a week.

A young man named John Nicholson, who was engaged in cleaning windows at Messrs Reid and Gray's premises on Thursday, fell 1 from the roof and sustained a flesh wound on his forearm. His inquiries were attended to at the Hospital, after which the young man returned home.

An elderly man named John Dagge, be longing to Waaganui. expired suddenly after, eating his lunch in Wellington on Saturday. At the adjourned inqucet on tho body of Bernard MuJlan the jury returned a verdiofc that deceased came by lus death by a fall from a window in the Walla*. etown June* tion Hotel. "We believe that tho fall v.aa the result of deceased being supplied with, intoxicating liquor in the hotel whilst in a drunkeai etaie." Mullstn had been at ths stock sales adjoining tittr hold, and evidence was given that he was tlie worse of liquor at sundown. Hi» home was not far away, but ho was put to bed in the hotel. Mr E. Ford, a delegate from Auckland district to the Liberal and Labour Conference, died suddenly at Wellington on Friday, the supposed caiiee of death being heart disease.

A man whose name is supposed to be Donald Bear wae drown in the Mcawhango River, Wellington, on Friday. Tire body has not yet been recovered. i : A severe accident occurred on the New Roxburgh Jubilee dredge on Friday night ta Samuel M'Caulcy whereby he lost hie right foot. When working about the screen ,hia foot was caughit in the roller on which, tho screen revolves and cut right off just below the ankiJe. The sufferer ie progressing as satisfactorily aa can be expected. M'Oauley was a native of Blue Spur, but has been for many years in this district. Edith Lee, aged 17, employed at Rose* ville, North Sydney, was a few days ago! shot dead accidentally. In company with another girl, she had been playing with a revolver, and the weapon- was thrown on. to a table, the concussion causing it to, go off. The bullet lodged in Miss Lee's brain, causing instantaneous death. Charles Kemp, formerly a hotelkeepery shot himself dead at Winnecke's depot. South Australia, recently. He had typhoid fever, and his brother, who woe nursing him, had just leit the tent to get some beef tea', when he heard a shot. The patient had got out of bed, taken a revolver from hia pocket, and shot himself through the head. He leaves a widow and four children. A man named William Milieu met with, a nainful accident on the railway works at the mouth of tihe Huatoki (Taranaki) last Friday. In some way his left ear was caught in the frame of a pile driver, and it w«Lj almost tarn from the head. He is reported to be progressing satisfactorily.

William Sohroeder and Albert Bauer, two sailors of the German ship Nunna Cords, were drowned at Bunbury, Western Australia, about half-past 11 o'clock on a recent Saturday night. The night was dark and stormy, Schroede-r missed the ship's gangway, and it is supposed that Bausr fell while trying to jump aboard to lower a boat. Bower's body was recovered the following afternoon.