CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 25

CASUALTIES.

1 I.eslio Jeffers, aged 21 years, employed on road construction work at Wharerata, dropped a crowbar with which he was working at the top of a bank 12ft above tne road. J lie crowbar stood upright in the soft earth, and Jeffers, slipping down tiro bank, became impaled on the bar, which went right through his body, entering' the thigh and coming out at the shoulder-blade. It required the efforts of two strong men to remove tho bar. Jeffers was brought to Gisborne, and succumbed in the hospital on Sunday, 14th inst. A railway shunter, iba.uutei Knight, married, aged 29 years, was killed instantly at Otahuhu on the 15th inst. Marshalling a train, he_ stepped back to signal to ilie engine-driver, stepping directly in front o) an incoming train. 47 hen Leonard liarucastle. a taxi-driver, was driving a party along a road near Hamilton he took too wide a sweep when approaching the bridge, with (he result that the car crashed through the rail and tell 15ft into the water and overturned. The passenger, Ivan Watters, rescued the driver | and a lady passenger, but no trace was found of Ilardcastle’s two-year-old child, which apparently floated down the river and was drowned. Kathleen Alary Archer, aged 12 years, when returning from Christchurch with her mother after attending a picture entertainment, was knocked down by a motor car after alighting from a tramear at Addington. She was conveyed to the hospital, and died shortly after admission. An inquest was opened on the 15 1 1 1 and adjourned sine die. Janies A. Craig, the City Council Imployee who fell from the top of a tramway pole on the 13th, died in the Auckland Hospital. A middle aged patient at the. Hospital, named G. Smith, had a sensational jump or fall from a window of llie Dominion Ward on Friday, 12th inst., but, though the I distance is about 201 t, he fortunately escaped without serious injury, as he landed on the grass. Smith is a single man, whose home is at Allandale road. St. Clair. He served some time as a soldier in the late war, but is not in hospital as a military patient. Catherine M'l.eod. aged 52 years, and single, residing at Matamau with her father, was found drowned in a stream close to her resilience. She had been despondent lately. It is not known how she got into the water. The body was in night, attire. John Joseph Kane, a young man, died at Redeliff on the 15th. ’ It is reported that he had been drinking heavily. A post, mortem has been ordered. A motor cycle, ridden by three men—two named Burling and the oilier named Crewe—collided head-on with a motor car near Ilamua, Wellington. All the occupants are in Pahiatua Hospital. F. Burling has a broken thigh and other injuries. The others are not so seriously injured. The cycle and car were badly knocked about, Arthur Puttiok, a young man employed as fireman on the Kurow-Oamaru train, was killed on the 18th inst. Just, before arriving at Duntroon the engine jumped the rails owing to -a stone being on the level crossing, and partly overturned. Puttielc leaped off, and was jammed by the tender. He died instantaneously. Bert Sillett, a waterside worker, 24 years of age, and resident in Adam street, was admitted to rile Hospital last week suffering from injuries to his right, hand, caused by an oil drum falling out of a sling while he was working at, the steamer Pakeha at the Victoria wharf. Private advice was received in Dunedin last week that, Mr William Steel, manager of tho Anglican Boys’ Memorial Home at Anderson’s Bay. had died suddenly. Air Steel left for Oamani on a business vi<it, last week, and while there he expired. Mr Steel is a member of a well-known NorthEast Valley family. lie was actively identified with St. Martin’s Anglican Church, and had served as a member of the vestry for many years. NELSON. August 20. ! A Nek-on Pre.-.s Association message says that F. G. Young, who was found in the , Botanic Gardens on Friday suffering from ; a cerebral seizure, died in the hospital cn ! Saturday.