CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 61

CASUALTIES.

! James M'Conway was kicked in the ! Ftompch by an unbroken colt at Seaview, ■ Marlbo.-ough, on the 20th. He was bi ought into Blenheim, where he lies in a.' serious condition. j While a shunter named Robert Stewart j was engaged in shunting at Oamaru he tripped and fell, two -wheels of a carriage passing over a portion of his body, j His right leg and hip were injured, but ' to what extent is not yet known. His right arm vas crushed/ and had to t>3 ' amputated. i Hazel Folsy, a girl aged nine years, } was killed at Invercargill on the 21st by a window sash dropping on her neck. The girl with her sister, was playing in the garden of Mrs Mar&hall, a neighbour, with Mrs Marshall's children, when her mother -*. ent out at 4 o'clock, locking the house. When fhe returned at 5.40 she found Ha&el with her head through the window from the outside, and the sash resting on her neck. Tbe window had been left propped open with a stick. A doctor raid that death was due to strangulation. The police at Queenstown report that a Chinaman mured Wong Gong has been found dead in a hut at Maori Point. A man named David iUithven, 21 yeaiv, of age, was admitted into the Hospital on the 21st, suffering from a fracture of the left leg belovr the kr.oe. He was liding a hoi'sc at Wingatui, and when he was demounting, the horse became restive and kicksd cut, eti iking him on the leg and j friir-tliring it. J A i-crioiiis accident occurred on the 22nd iii-t, at the Farmers' Freezing Works at Southdowns, between Otahuhu and Penrose. A large new building, to be used as a fellmongerv, \rfiich was in course , of erection, was blown down by a eudden squall, and three carpenters were injured. One of them, John Conway, a married man residing in Gladstone "street, Newton, who was on the top of the building, was very seriously injured. Robert Burns was badly hurt, and a third man named Austin sustained a severe shock. A woman's body, much decomposed, was found on the beacTi near Otaki on the £2nd. It is supposed to be that of Amelia Hemi, a domestic servant, aeed 24 yen re. and a native of Scotland, who has been missing from Wellington since April last. A youth narred W. Taylor, 17 years of atre. fell on a stump at Tryphena, (i r fTt Barrier T-land, on the 23rd, a shoot p^rt-n-ntincj his eye with fatal result, the lad dyinir the same night. Edmund Charles Woolt'enden, a youn? unmarried man. dropped dnad on tlie 24th in a. fii-hinac hut while with a paity at the Katarawa Stream, nine milrs from Pa)nipr^lon. Woolfenden was a well-known i-ssident.