CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14453, 27 May 1911, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

SHIPPING ACCIDENTS. Pre3s Association—By Tel.—Copyright The Cunarder Ivernia's bulkhead burst, the engines being flooded. The crew remain on board. (The, Ivernia struck a rock, holed her bottom, forward, and. was beached at Cork harbour. Tho bulk-heads confined the water at first.) The barque Manelalay, wrecked near Albany, AVcst Australia, Was blown ashore in a storm ten days ago. Tho crew of fourteen walked fifty miles to the township of Denmark. They had plenty of provisions, which were landed from the wreck. The steamship Toboga was sunk on Tuesday off Punta Mala, Panama, and of a hundred passengers on board' sixty were drowned. ' The Itzehoe is hard and fast, her propeller resting on the, rocks. Her bottom is badly damaged. The for&peak and lower parts of'Nos. 1 and 2 holds are full of water. The saving of the cargo depends on tho weather. A SUDDEN DEATH. An inquest was held at the AA 7 aima.te Hospital yesterday before Mr AA r . H. Beckett, Acting-Coroner and a jury of six, with Mr AY. Manchester as foiemon concerning tho death of Henry Baker, a well-known resident' of AA raimate, who died suddenly whilst loading oats on Mr Brinkmau's farm. After hearing the evidence of deceased's brother, of John Werges, Constable Donovan and Dr Hayes, a verdict was returned that . eleath resulted from natural causes. LOCAL ACCIDENTS. George AA'nll, the Star-Pirates player who was injured in a football match on Thursday, when examined at the Hospital was found to have some ribs broken. A little child named McNatty was taken to the hospital on Thursday suffering from a severe scalding through upsetting a teapot over its arms and chest. A wharf labourer named O'Donogbue had a bad fall yesterday when going home to lunch. Turning his b'cycle sharply to avoid a vehicle tho wheels skidded and he ears© down dislocating a shoulder.