CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1926, Page 7

CASUALTIES.

DEATH BY DROWNING. By Press' Association DARGAVILLE, March 22. The hotly of the young man, Keith Mitchell, drowned on the West Coast on March 14, was discovered on Saturday evening. 16 miles north of where the fatality took place. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. MOTORIST’S TRYING EXPERIENCE. ' By Telegraph—Press Association. GISBORNE, March 22. A commercial traveller had an exciting experience on one of the hill roads inland from Toltomaru Bay last week. His brakes failed, on a- narrow, steep road) but he managed to hold tlie car with the foot. brakes, one wheel being •over the edge of a 200 feet declivity for an hour and a half till, passers-b.v discovered him in a state of severe exhaustion. CHILD PARTLY STRANGLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 22. The se\ r entcen months old , daughter of Mr George Button, of Avondale, playing on a sleeping porch, got her neck caught in a string hanging from a meat safe. She was partly strangled, and was admitted to hospital in a serious condition, but is now .slightly better. ACCIDENTAL DEATH. By Telegraph— Association HAWERA, March 22. A verdict of accidental death, - with no blame attached to anyone, was returned at tlie inquest touching the death of Daniel Nolan, a guard cm-, ployed by the Public AVorks Department on the Tcroti-Opunake railway, who was killed on March 15 by being crushed between tlie buffers of two trucks. ' DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. MAN DIES FROM INJURIES. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 22. As a result of being run over on the Rattray Street railway crossing this morning by the 10.25 train to Mosgiel, a man named Robert AVilson had"both legs cut off about tbo knee, and received bead injuries. ■Ho died in hospital at 11.40. Deceased was ferty-six years of age, and a married man. • . . From statements of witnesses, it seems that the train was moving out at ‘a steady pace. The bells rung out their warning, and the crossing-keeper was carrying out bis duty of signalling tin flic, hut the man did not heed the bell One witness stales that he saw him crouched on the line in front of the oncoming engine, and another man saw him just ns he 101 l forward. An ambulance was summoned promptly, and tho nu» w*; removed to the hospital Blood transliision was carried out without avail. A bottle that had contained a' nerve tome was found amoiiw Wilson’s belongings. He hud not lo"lig been discharged from hospital. An inquest was opened at the hospital this afternoon. ANOTHER CAR VICTIM. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 22. Alary Scannery, aged 11 years, residing at Kavaiia, Southland, was admitted to hospital last night suffering from a fracture of the. left leg through being knocked down by a motor car.