CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 29

CASUALTIES.

» 'A miner named John Cook met with an Occident by a fall of stone and coal in the Denniston colliery on Saturday. His foot was badly crushed, his 4egs bruised, and his- bead injured. ■■ . ' A young man named - Robert Firmston was drowned at Alwakino on. the Bth. He was bathing vfith his brother, .and it is thought he was seized with cramp. The other man endeavoured to save him, but was twice dragged under,- and 'had" to relinquish "tfie jtask, Teaching shore himself in an exhausted state. '■firmstori was a single wan, aged 25 years. ■ . ■. • Charles La Crqsse, cook at Benmore Station died on the 6th in the Springfield- • ito-Chxistchurch train. He. complained yes- . Ifcer4ay of severe internal pains. Remedies used did not relieve him, .go it was decided to send him to the Christchurch Hospital, "fcut, jas stated, he died' on the way.- La «3ros3e"was a single man, 45" years of age. At 42he - inquest a verdict"' of ."death from , heart disease was returned.. ■- ' Jeremiah Tobin, -farm labourer, who" lived yritb" bis wife and family ; at Pine Hill, while jworking in a cow. byre at~ 9.50 bn Bth ~inst. feuddfenly fell down and expired. ' He had complained of pains in the chest off and on forihe past two years. The body of a man named John S. Wright was found in a house in ""Auckland. The body was doubled" up and lying- in 'a pool" of blood. The throat was 6ut,~ and there were also gashes on the Swrins. A razor bearing marks'' of the ifcragedy was lying" near. Wright was about 60 years, old, a tailor by occupation; and had recently" arrived from Sydney." ' A married* woman named Emma Partridge, aged : 52, wife of a fairmef at "Viestreet, ' St. Martins, died* suddenly On the- ,Bth inst., after complaining of pains in. the" head. Death is attributed t<y heart (disease. Mr Ge6rge E. Stirling, an engine-driver, Idled suddenly at Bennetts on the 9th. He was on" the train service between Bennetts and Kaiapoi. and was on duty yesterday, apparently in good 'health and spirits. About, midnight, he had a seizure, and • .everything possible , was done for the man, but he expired about an hour fdisrwaxda. Ellen Rose Berry, seven years of age, -.•whose mother resides at Killinchy, was found dead in her bed on the 10th at the residence of her sister, Mrs Morris, Bass " street,"' Woolstdn. An old man named Peter Upton Barrett, whilst attaching a horse to a dray in Cusitdrns street, Auckland, on 13tb, was knocked flown and kicked "by. the animal, which bolted. . .Barrett had -several ribs broken, and expired whilst his, injuries were being '^attended to by a doctor. - Mir ■ William Will,", aged 73, ' .formerly editor- of the Auckland Weekly News, died suddenly on "Sunday -night. Death was Hue ' to heart failure. Near Gisborne Gladys Margaret Brown, Eve years of age, was drowned in the fiVaimata River. * Her mother 'and some -triends were near at hand. The girl had wandered' away to play, and when her jnoiftier looked for her she ".Tier hart floating down the river but no sign of the- child.- She informed the police, and fee body was recovered about half an hour •fter the child had been missed. Two little Maori girls, aged two years, were drowned in .the Manawatu River ai •Raiigitane on Saturday. The body of ont was found floating down the river- by som« Maoris,, but the* other has not yet been recovered.- An inquest was held to-day, ■when a" verdict- of accidental drowning was returned. On the voyage of the Marama from Pori Chalmers to the Bluff, when about tw< miles f rom ''Taiaroa Bay, "&' steerage pas teenger named Hugh .Dalgleieh, who -jolnec nt Wellington, jumped overboard at *• ( o'clock on Sunday night." He was pickec - iip, floating face downward, by a boat 1( minutes later, "but >• found- T:o be "drowned, The deceased had been acting strangely or the voyage. A coroner's inquest was-helc Sn the courthouse. _ After - hearing the evidence of the . captain and officers a /Ver diet -of " Suicide, while in a 6tate of' .un sound mind " was returned; - , ' A young man named Alfred Perry ; em ployed atMr Warden's farm at Waikiwi near. Invercargill, was badly- crushed - b;s '■a Cambridge roller on Saturday. He wai sittiiig on the" frame instead of' on tb< seatj- "and .it ' is.' supposed- that, becoming drowsy, he fell forward. • His employer working -at - some little distance ayay lieard_his cries, and on going to him> founc ihim lying face- upwards,' with' -the roller oi •Ms body.- Perry_was treated 'promptly anc conveyed- to the Invercargill - Hospital Jwhere it was found that" 'no bones .were fittoken,, though he was badly crushet generally. Perry's home is in Kaikora (Valley, Dunedin, which he left about tw< Veaite 'ago -to work, first on a' farm a' ■Maiaura and- subsequently for Mr Wardei *t Waikiwi. . He is 18 years old»