CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2624, 29 June 1904, Page 38

CASUALTIES.

An inquest was held at Onehunga concerning the ds.ath of Lawrence Geraghty. Evidence was given as to the fire at deceased's house and the discovery of liis remains, but no new facts were elicited. The jury brought in a verdict of "Accidental death from suffocation."

At Wanganui on the 21st-two boys named Rohloff, aged 8 and 10 years respectively, had a narrow escape from drowning. They foil into the liver, and were about to sink when tl'ey wcie rescued by an engine-driver

A mine.r named John Barclay met with a sor'ovs accident on the 21st in the New i'cv.r-m-hand mine, Coromandel. He was ciiarping- a hole with gelignite, and was putting a rceond plug when both stiddenly exploded, c evtrc!y cutting him about the faco and body. He was carried on a to tbo kespitah where he lies in a serious condition.

Two men, named A. Matliias and Daniel Wih.cn, who were wcaking in a small shaft abo-o the No 2 L-iel of the Wailu Gold Mining Company's mine, was buried on the 21-,t by a fall of timber. After foui and a 1 alf hours' rescue- work, Wilson was got oi.t uninjured, but Mathi.is was dead. The men v.cro on'y divided by the space of a foot. Mnthir, w.is evidently crushed by the falling- timber, while Wilson was only pir.ued acrG?s his middle. The men spoke i 3 each other after ilie accident, Matkias saving. "I'm doi.e."' Deceased was a wellknown footballer, and leaves a young wife and an infant child.

Francis Gawn was talcing a load of timber to Green Island on Thursday when the horse shied and backed the cart over a bank, with the result that the vehicle struck Gawn a heavy blow, dislocating his shoulder The injured man was attended to at the Hospital, where he will be compelled to remain for a little time.

The Winton Record says that on Tuesday evening last an unfortunate accident hapDeued to a child of Mr William M'Rae, of

Hodgehope. The little one, a g ; rl ag«ci three, had been undressed ready for bed, but went too near the fire and her flannelette nightdress ignited, and before the flames could be extinguished one side of the body and one arm had be-en badly burnt.

A man named Isaac Burbeck was found! dead on rho 21,( in the Stra,tfor-J (T\ranaki> Cemetery, with a whisky bottle half full be. sid-e him.

A setter named Dwvel G-ant, who recently bought a farm at Ararinui, Auckland, left home on Monday, 20th hist., and! as lie did net return search was made, and his dead body was found in the scrub about; three mi'es from his house. A patient -ai the Porirua Asylum named! E. David, a n.arrie.l woman, was found drowned in a water fink on the evening of the 21st under circumstances which point to suicide. At the inquest on the 22ncD the jury returned a verdict of suicide by suffocation. The deceased, who was allowed! to assist in the kitchen work, placed her head in the kitchen sink and turned on the water tap while other patients and eooka were at tea. When they returned half an hour afterwards she was dead.

Information was received by the Railway Traffic Office on the 21st that Edward Pedlow, a guard, had been killed through a shunting accident. It appears that the unfortunate man v/as in charge of the evening train from Onmaru to Palmerston, and whern the train was at Waimotu he was engaged in shunting operations at the siding, and was run over "by a railway waggon and one of his legs and portion of his body were> very severely crushed. The sufferer was immediately conveyed to Herbert, where he was attended to by the local doctor, bub death ensued shortly before 7 o'clock. Pedlow, who was about 30 years of agev was a married man and resided at Palmerstou. The body of William M'Kenzte was founds in Wellington Harbour on Thursday. Deceased had been a fireman on the ocean, liners, but for some weeks past had worked on the wha'f. He was 33 years of age.

J. Marshall, an old-age pensioner, residing at Gibbston, died on Wednesday last whilst being conveyed to the Arrow Hospital. A» inquest was held at Arrow on Thursday, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. — Wakatipvt Mail.

A man named Henry Field, trollyman or± the tramway from Coke Bay to Round Hill, was thrown from the trolly on Tu-esday last through the horses bolting when descendinga hill on the tramline, and received injuries which necessitated his removal to the hospital.

An inquest was held at Napier on Saturday on the body of a man named Thomas Stack, a saddler, who died suddenly during the morning when beings taken to the hospital. A verdict was returned that death resulted from congestion, of the lungs and a weak heart, accelerated, by heavy drinking.

Albert Henry Moore, aged 31, a married! roan, was ki'led instantaneously at Waipawa. Hawke's Bay, while engaged in * sawing down a tree. Moore was lying on the ground, when part of tho tree suddenly fell off, and a log in an upright position descended _on to Moore's neck. The tree liad to be sawn right through before the body could be extricated.

The four-year-old son of Mr George Lilly, of Mount Grey Downs, Canterbury, was severely burned on Friday, and died that; night.

Information was received from Ophir on Saturday to the effect that on 'the previous night; Matthew Hunt, an Otago Central railway employee, fell over a rook near his tent and was picked up in the morning in an unconscious condition, the result of a fracture of the skull, and conveyed to the* Clyde Hospital.

An accident occurred to a party whi'e returning from a drive out to the Taien. on Sunday. The party were driving down tbo hill into Caversham when the axle of the trap broke-, and some of the occupants were thrown out on the road. One, named! Michael Connor, was removed to the Hospital, and was found to be cut about the face and bruised about the head. The other n:an (whose name is not known) was. slightly cut about the hands and head. Neither of the men, it is understood, was furiously injured.

A man named Mathew Hunt, who sustained a fracture of the skull by a fall frora a cliff in the neighbourhood of Ophir, died! at the Dunstan Hospital on Saturday evening. The deceased was an identity of the early clays cf the St. Bathans goidficld, a.t» which place he was widely known and highly respected. He leaves a family, the members of which are living at Gore andl Waikaka, to mourn their loss.

A son of Mr D. Dossitor, Auckland, under three j-ears of age, died from burns caused! by his pinafore itmitmg when he was in front of the fire. His mother heard screams, and fotmd the child in flames. She rolled! him in a carpet, and extinguished the fire, but the cbild was severely burned, and death resulted from shock.

A boating accident occurred on Friday ac Awaroa, Nelson, b}- which a young man named Albert Bariq 1 lost his life. Deceased and others wont off to the steamer Wairoa. to bring a passenger named Miss Hadfield ashore. When crossing the river bar the boa* eaps'zed. Yoiug Hndnelcl, who was one of the party, swam ashore with his sister, while Chailes Robertson, another occupant regained the overturned boat, bufc Bang swan in the wrong direction, and failed to reach the shore. So far the body has not been recovered. Decea=cd \va=! a. native of Denmark, and had be-en eights years in New Zealand. Ho was employed at a sawmill at Awaroa, and leaves a widow and young family.

A man named Timothy Hogan w?-s th» ■v ictim of a phcot : nar accident at Admiral Run, Masterton. He has been removed to the Greytown Hospital in a critical condition. It appears that his mate, a man named Dew, was letting down the hammer of a Winchester repeating rifle after leadins' it, when the weapon exploded. The bullet entered Ilogan's ri^ht shoulder, passed through his spine," and lodged in Ivs l^ft shoulder, causing paralysis of the body below hi^ arms. There is not much hope of the man's recovery. Ho 3an was inside a wharc when the accident happened, while Dew -was outside, the bullet passing through (.he wall.

An inquest was held on Monday aft-er-nocn before Mr C. C Graham (coronet) and! a jury, of which Mr J. M^C'racken wasfoirman, touchino: the death of Charlotte "Rermond, who died svddenlv at her residene-. Catherine street. Gaversham, on Saturdrr* morning. Medical evidence was given b - Dr Riley, the jury returning a verdict thaj the cause of cVath was failure of the heart' | action in a ppilentic fit Information was received on Monday tlias a man named Patrick Donaw, a farmefl

ftboub 60 years of age, residing at Waitahuna West, and employed by Mr Ryan, ihreshingmill-owner, had been accidentally killed while assisting to take one of the back travelling- wheels off a traction engine. It seems the. wheel, which is of great weight, fell upon him, causing internal injuries of ft fatal nature.

A Hokitika wire states that Henry Crone, who has been an inmate of the Seaview 'Asylum for 34 years, died on Sunday, beingchoked by a piece of meat when eating. A Maori lad, about 12 years of age, was severely scalded at Whakarewarewa on Wednesday last. By some means he fell Into one of the boiling pools jus* beyond the bridge, being immersed up to about the waist, and before assistance arrived tho whole of the lower part ot the- body was severely scalded.- It is feared the injury sustained will prove fatal.— Hot Lakes Chronicle.