CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3509, 14 June 1921, Page 38

CASUALTIES.

A man who was just able to give his name —Thomas Shannon—before he died, was fatally injured by being struck by the second express about a mile north ot Tiinaru Station, lie was .men walking along the footpath parallel with the line, and was struck where the path crosses the line, and carried about 25 yards and thrown clear. He died on his way 10 the hospital. It is surmised that he came from Christchurch, where a man of that name was known to a police officer live or six years ago. as a sin glo man living at Sydenham. He was apparently about 45 years of age. r .A workman named Nutall was killed at 1 aradale on the 6th by a falling tecs. While tries were being felled, one lung on another, and the latter fell without warning, a branch .miking deceased on the back of the neck. Death was instantaneous. Nutall was a married man with live children. 'fhe police have been informed that Wil-li-'m Jones, aged 40, a she; herd employed on Linwood Station, Te Amu, was found drowned in rite Upukai-cro River on the sth. lie ha-;! 1 icon away boundary riding, and his horse returned ri lerle.-s. On a search being made Jones’s brdy was found in the river. A fatal motor accident on the Bth occurred neat 1 shoraiti Railway Station on the Bth. William Beatty, aged 40 years, and his brother-in-law (Peter Hay) were returning to Terebunga from Dannevirke, when rile car capsized over a small bank. Beatty was killed outright. He was one of the original settlers at Tereht'iiga, and leaves a widow and young child. Hay suffered a dislocated shoulder and abrasions to his head and face, and is now in hospital. The cause of the accident is unknown. A charabanc containing about 60 passengers bound for the races capsized at Khyber Bass, Auckland, where it collided with a tramcar containing eight passengers. Two were admitted to the hospital—viz., Hugh Sherson, assistant traffic manager, city corporation, and Frank IT arisen. Th.e former is badly injured. The brakes-failed going down (he hill. Edward Botcher, an employee of the Wellington Farmer.-.’ Aieat Company, fell through the hatchway at the works on the 17th, and sus ained an injury to his head from which he died last night in hospital. Eugene O’Keefe, a widower with four children, went gathering flounders at R.akepi, in the Oollingwood district. His body was found on the beach next day. The coroner’s verdict on the death of

the China man, Sue Woon, the victim ot the recent accident to the Roxburgh mail motor coach, was that deceased came to his deata at Alexandra on May 15 from fracture and dislocation of the vertebras, caused by the deceased bciqg caught and crushed under a motor oar driven by Donald M’Donald, when the said car accidentally capsized. The coroner was Air E. C. Levvey, S.M. Two men, Walter Angel and Maurice Afoore. went coal prospecting in the bush at Stillwater early on the 9th, and did not return. Search parties have found their horses, but no trace of the men. A Christchurch Association telegram states that William John Grand, a retired farmer, 44 years old, was found on Friday morning in the outhouse of his residence in the city suffering from a revolver wound in the head. Flo was admitted to the hospital, and died shortly after. As the result of a collision between a taxi and a wagon, Frank Keenan, single, died in the Christchurch Hospital. According to the police report. Keenan was the occupant of a taxi, which collided with a.n unit'll ted wagon, driven by Alfred Denton. Keenan received a broken arm. and was otherwise knocked about. In the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, Denton was fined £2 011 a charge of drunkenness, and was convicted and discharged on the charge of driving without lights.