A LONG LIST OF DISASTERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 5

A LONG LIST OF DISASTERS.

MANY LIVES LOST. TERRIBLE STORY OF CATHCART ACCIDENT. A DOCTOR'S HEROISM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. January 9, 10.55 p.m.) Cape Town, January 9. Details of tho recent railway disaster at Cathcart state that a crowded train of passeugers, chiefly women and children, was descending a deep incline to a curve, nine miles from town, when six coaches toppled over through the.couplings snapping. . The coaches turned turtle and were smashed to matchwood. ' Tho accident happened in pitch darkness. Many bodies were, mangled to a pulp, and others were pinned in the debris and died before their relatives' eyes. Mothers and children screamed in. agony and fright. Dr. Robertson, with three ribs broken, was carried from place to placo directing the treatment of the injured until ' he fainted. The first relief came three hours after tho accident. .TORNADO IN WYOMING. MAN BLOWN AWAY. New .York, January 8. A tornado struck Sheycnne, a town in Wyoming, and unroofed many-build-ings. A railway employee was blown a hundred, yards and carried on the roof of a car. . ... Many persons were injured. SEVEN MINERS SUFFOCATED. Rome, January 8. A fire occurred in a sulphur mine at Tufo, in the Avellino district' of Campania. Seven miners were suffocated. LANDSLIDE IN ANDALUSIA. Madrid, January 8. Theto has been a big landslide at the copper mines at Rio Tinto, in the province of Andalusia. Five men were killed and fivo injured. Others have not yet been extricated. MUTINEERS' SUDDEN END. Rio de Janeiro, January 8. It is' reported that twenty-six. of the naval mutineors who are undergoing imprisonment, died from sunstroke while repairing the defences of the Island of Cobras, and that nineteen others succumbed to suffocation in the prison cells. POISONED BREAD KILLS SIX. New York, January 8. Six deaths took place at San Antonio, Texas, as tho result of eating poisoned bread. FIFTEEN HUNDRED WORKLESS. JUTE. MILLS DESTROYED. Rec. January 9, 10.20 p.m.) ..- Hamburg, January 9. The North German Jute Spinning Mills have been destroyed by fire. t Fifteen hundred persons have been rendered .workless. ■ ' TRAWLER FOUNDERS WITH ALL HANDS. (Rec., January' 9,. 10.55 p.m.) , London, -January 9. The trawler Snipe has foundered in tho North Sea, and all hands have been lost, . ;