VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17764, 12 September 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. BRIDGE COLLAPSES. NUMBER OF PEOPLE DROWNED. FEW YORK, September 10. According to a message from Chester, Pennsylvania, twenty men, women, and children are known to have been drowned and at least twenty more arc believed to be at the bottom of a tributary of the Delaware River, as the result of an old wooden bridge collapsing. A little boy had fallen into the water, and crowds congregated on the bridge to-watch his rescue, with the result that the structure became overloaded. Besides the above casualties forty persons were injured.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EXPLOSION ON DEUTCHSLAND. THREE FATALITIES. LONDON, September 10. Three engineers were killed and three injured through an explosion on the former Gorman submarine Deutchsland, which crossed the Atlantic during the war and is now being dismantled at Birkenhead. The men were .stripping the motor room when the explosion took place. The cause is unknown. The men were, flung against the sides of the vessel. Volunteers pluckily descended into the smoking interior and brought out the bodies. The fire was quickly extinguished.—A. and, N.Z. Cable. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. LONDON, September 10. Mr Ralph Seguit has returned from Spitsbergen, where ho was a member of a party which waa despatched from England iu order to make scientific investigations.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SOUTH AFRICAN BY-ELECTIONS. CAPE TOWN, September 10. (Received September 12, at 8.45 a.m.) Labor’s success at tho by-elections camo as a surprise to most people. The newspapers attribute tho turnover votes to the economic distress, for which tho Government has been made tho scapegoat. Tho ‘ Cape 'Times ’ declares that the electors will be puzzled to say what they hope to gain by tiro decision, since neither of the successful Laborites has offered a practicable alternative I? the Government’s policy.—Reuter.