MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. The Binningltam and Llandudno express ran into an empty train at Crewe when travelling at. the. rate of 50 miles an hour. Thirty passengers were injured, chiefly by tailing luggage. The firemen had great difficulty in preventing the banning wreckage firing the passenger tiuin. '• A factory in course of construction at Grand Qucvilly (France) was struck by lightning and collapsed, burying 50 masons and carpenters. The fall killed nine men. and seriously injured 10, four of them mortally. Naouin Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, dropped dead while sitting at cards" in the Union Club (Paris). The Council of Ministers have decided to sell corn at cost price, and to organise public: works in South-east Russia, the steppe, region, and Siberia, owing t.o the failure of the harvest. A forest conflagration is raging in tho San Jirrnadino Mountains (California). Several resorts have been wiped out. a.nd though 400 men are at work they have, been unable to eop? with the flames. The» Canadian cruiser Niobe reports that a Canadian ship i.; ashore on the Nova Seotian coast, with her engine room flooded. Steamers have been despatched from Halifax and St. .John's to render aid.