CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 48

CASUALTIES.

A drover named Donald M'Donald, a resident of Wangaehu, was killed on the 11th nist. by falling from a horse and being dragged along the road with one foot in the stirrup. Some motorists overtook the horse dragging the man. The body of Mr Guy Shaw, aged 44 years, a well-known settler inland from Patea, was found in a creek a mile from the homestead. The throat was cut. lie has been missing since Monday. He leaves a wife and two children. A shocking fatal accident occurred at 3 p.m. on the 13th at Kimbolton road railwya crossing, by which George Hirst ■ lost his life. Hirst and a man named Ross (both returned soldiers) own a big motor lorry, and were on board. At 'the crossing a goods train was shunting on one of the double lines, and the motorists waited till the train had passed, and then drove up to the crossing. The New Plymouth _ express, which was coming in at 'the time, struck the fore part of the lorry and the hooded-in seat. Ross, who was thriving, jumped out just in time, but was seriously injured. The hooded-in part was caught by the engine, and Hirst was carried about three cnains on the cowcatcher. _ He was fearfully injured, and died within a few minutes. Ihis railway crossing has been the subject of correspondence between the local authorities for years. It has always been considered dangerous. Hirst is the second man to be killed there. Feilding has a distressing list of motor accidents. Including Ross, there are now four residents under medical care as the result of motor accidents within past week. A Chinaman named Lee Chuen, about 60 or 65 years of age, was found dead in bed at his house in Carroll street, Dunedin, on the 13th. The deceased came to Dunedin some months ago from Orepuki, and little is known concerning him. His body was removed to the Morgue, and an' inquest will probably be held to-day_. Charles Hunter, auctioneer, of Cambridge, aged 58 years, was found dead on the 9th hanging by the neck in his stable at the rear of his house. He is survived by a- widow and two children. Deceased had some 12' months ago the misfortune to lose his two sons, Wallace and Fred, at the front, both being killed in action. William H. Scott, fireman, employed at H. Parker and Co.'s engineering works, died in the Auckland Hospital from injuries caused by an explosion of molten _ metal that was raked out of a furnace with tho ashes. An old man, believed to be James Low, was killed on the 17th through being run over by a tram at Bayswater, Auckland. He was walking on the track when he waa overtaken by tne tram. Mr W. J. Price, Crown lands ranger for the Wellington district, left his home at Piriaka at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, and failed to return. He had been suffering from an aggravated form of mumps for a week, and as he had complained of the cold his wife went to make him a hot poultice. She heard a click of the door, and followed quickly, but was too late to find her husband. Search parties were out all Sunday, when a dressing gown was found in tho Wanganui River, half a mile away. A further search was made on the 17th, and the body was found at 2 p.m. near the Matapuna railway bridge, about live miles from Piriaka. The deceased s temperature was abnormal, and he would have died from exposure, if nothing else had happened. The deceased leaves a wife and three children.