TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 9

TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE

Greenmeadows Seminary ALL BUILDINGS DESTROYED AH the Roman Catholic Seminar.' buildings at Greenmeadows, Hawke's Bay, have been destroyed with tragicloss of life, according to information received by the authorities of the Marist Order in Wellington yesterday. The casualties are as follow: — Dead ’ ■ FATHER BOYLE. FATHER GONDRINGER, Hastings. WILLIAM STEVENSON, Mosgiel. JAMES DOOGAN, Greymouth. BODEY ANNISY, Greymouth. NGAIO RAFTER, Wellington. VINCENT CARMODY, Wanganui. LEONARD MANGOS, Tiinarn. ALEC DEWDNPORT, Christchurch. Injured JAMES BURNING. Timaru. RICHARD O’SULLIVAN, Brisbane. Others injured less severely. The Rev. Father Gondringer was a Luxemburger by nationality. He was for some years a member of the faculty of St. Patrick’s College, where his ability, knowledge, and bonhomie made him very popular among the students. Vincent Carmody, aged 19 years, was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carmody, of 36 Liverpool Street, Wanganui, and was in his second year at the Seminary. He received his primary education at the Wanganui Marist Brothers’ School and matriculated from the Technical College. He later attended St. Bede’s College, Christchurch, and from there went to the Seminary at Greenmeadows. Sister Chanel, of the Sacred Heart Convent. St. John’s Hill, is an aunt of the deceased.

Father P. J. Boyle, S.M., Procurator of the Seminary at Greenmeadows, was the son of Mrs. T. Boyle, of Harrison Street, Wanganui. He received his primary education at the Marist Brothers’ School, Wanganui, and later attended Villa Maria, Sydney, the Marist Fathers’ Seminary there. After being on the Australian mission for some time he was transferred fwo years ago as Procurator of the Seminary at Greenmeadows. Father Boyle was in Wanganui last month. His late father, Mr. T. Boyle, was at one time manager of the Wanganui “Herald.” The Rev Father Kimball was presiding over a “retreat” at the Seminary this week, and it is supposed that all those killed and injured were in the chapel when it collapsed. It is likely that Father Kimball, who is well-known all over New Zealand, would just about have finished hfs morning’s half-hour discourse, and had left the chapel before the tragedy. Message From Prime Minister. The following telegraphic message has been received from the Prime Minister. Right Hon. G. W.' Forbes, by his Grace Archbishop Redwood: “I learn with very deep regret of the tragic loss of life resulting from the destruction by earthquake of the Catholic Seminary at Greenmeadows, and I wish to. tender my sincere sympathy to the relatives and to the Church in their sad loss.” INJURED IN HOSPITAL Palmerston North Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, February 4. The following is a list of injured admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital to-day:— Douglas Carrington, Allan K. McDon aid, James Stevenson, Patrick Joseph Devine, Frederick Edward Bowen, Miss Mavis Faulknor, Mrs. Esther Scholfield, Miss Jessie Badley, Miss Dina Libby. Miss Elspeth Stuart, Mrs. Elsie Campbell, Mrs. Roma Goodwin, Mrs. Elizabeth Maddigan, Mrs. Florence Webb, Mrs. Emma Beery, Miss Anderson, Mjss Annie Hawkins, Mrs. Ina May Henderson, Mrs. Gertrude Barnett, Mrs. Nellie Trueman, Mrs. May Scott, Miss Marjorie Olive Warwick, Miss Kitty Carroll, Neil Cullan, Herbert Wischnowsky, Charles Chattaway, William Fulton, John Marshall Campbell, David Smith, William T. Blewett, Leslie John Rattray, Jaek Wallis, Miss Grace Tosher, Mrs. Walter Parsons, Fred King, Vance Jurasovich, Gordon Black, Alexander Burrows, Leopold Kelly, Thomas Lahood, Stanley Newlands, Laurence Carver, Jack Ryan, John O’Connor, Fred Wilson, Stewart McKenzie, Edward Whitton, James. Butler, Geo. Hayward, Robt. G. Martin, Jameb Gahan, Peter Jacobsen. The following are the nurses from the Napier Hospital who were admitted:— Sister Rona Carswell Cook, Nurses Fredn Chesterman, Kathleen Amner, Berj I Cullen, Phyllis Douglas, Thorne George The following are the children; —Mari Grant, Leslie Hamlin, Violet Pearce, Bn ly Lavin, Laurie James.

PRISON COLLAPSES Convicts Rescue Mates SLEEP IN THE OPEN The walls of Napier prison collapseand there was nothing to prevent tilprisoners escaping. They behaved, how ever, in most exemplary manner. Two of them were seriously injured and were removed to hospital in the park, and five others slightly hurt had their wound* dressed on the spot. They had been buried in the fall of earth m the quarry. Other prisoners dug them out. Heating there was a woman buried up the street, they went and rescued her. She had a broken arm and was conveyed t< hospital in a state of collapse. The prisoners returned in orderly man ner to the prison, where they slept in the open and caused not the slightest anxiety to anyone. The prison was visited by the Prisons Controller, Mr. B. L. Dallard, and the Public Service Commissioner, Mr. P. Verschaffelt. WORKMAN BURIED Countryside Shattered By Telegraph—Press Association Gisborne, February 24. At Mohaka the whole of the countryside is shattered. There are slips on most of the hills, and the rivers and streams are dammed up. At Mohaka railway bridge a workman was buried under tons of debris, and any attempt to recover has body to ragardad as almost boDeJe*"-