ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
COLLAPSE OF A PLEASURE BARGE. [Special to Pbess Association.]] [Received August 14, at 7.80 p.m.J NEW YORK, August 13. The deck of a pleasure barge ia New York harbour, upon which eight hundred excursionists were dancing, gave way owing to the supports being rotten. Eight womoa and children, and two men were killed, and thirty others were wounded. [Received August 15, at 12.50 a.m.] A STEAMER ASHORE. THURSDAY ISLAND, August 14. The steamer Deddington, laden with coal from Newcastle to Soura* baya, in Java, has gone ashore on Sherrard Island. She is in a dangerous position if bad weather comes on. [Peb Pbxss Association.! AUCKLAND, August 14. Frank Dalton, not Dawson, who died suddenly at the Good Templar Lodge, leaves a wife and a family of five. Death resulted from syncope, through weakness of the valves of the heart. NELSON, August 14. A man named Burt was rather badly hurt at the Belgrove railway works by a, fall of earth, but no bones were broken.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9493, 15 August 1891, Page 5
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