ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9512, 7 September 1891, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Speciai, to Press Association.! [Received Sept. 5, at 10.45 a.m.] AN UNFOUNDED EE PORT. PARIS, Sept. 4. No further news has yet been received from Dijon, confirming the fearful loss of lire at first reported. [Received Sept. 6, at 5.40 p.m.] Sept. 5. The report of an accident to a train, conveying French troops to the manoeuvres is incorrect. STORMS IN FRANCE. During, severe storms in the city several persons were drowned. The sewers being flooded caused thousands of rats to invade the houses. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION, CHICAGO, Sept. 5. An explosion of twenty tons of dynamite at White Pigeon, in Michigan, destroyed the factory and killed six persons. RAILWAY COLLISION. MADRID, Sept. 3. By a railway collision in this city seven persons were killed and twenty injured. The collision between the Medina del Campo and Madrid express trains was due to the negligence of a pointsman. [Received Sept. 6, at 6.10 p.m.] Sept. 5. In the collision between the Medina Campo and Madrid expresses no lives were lost, but many persons were injured.

FATAL FOOTBALL ACCIDENT. IFkB .fjtwsss rtHSUCIATIOW.] AUCKLAND, Sept. 5,

In a football match. Rovers v. Gordon, this afternoon, at Potter’s paddock, Thomas Sibbin, a printer .and a wellknown footballer, who was playing for the Rovers, sustained a fracture of the spine. He accidentally tripped over a player who was dribbling the ball, and doubled hia head under his breast. He was admitted to the hospital unconscious, and died shortly afterwards. He leaves a wife and several children. He was a son of George Sibbin, auctioneer. The game played was the Association. WESTPORT, Sept. 5. A coloured man named John Beanetb was out fishing when the boat capsized. A boat vrliich put out from Cape, Foulwind with three men to rescue Bennett also capsized, and tho crew saved themselves with difficulty. Bennett, who is a powerful man, was rescued after being two hours in the water. He is in a prostrate condition. An inquest was held at tho residence of Mr William Russell. Zakahh, on Friday last, before Mr H. W. Moore, touching the death of Mrs Isabella Russell. The evidence showed that death was the result oz natural causes, and a verdict to that effect was returned. William an elderly coloured man, who has been employed as a labourer at tho Addington railway workshops for a number of years, died somewhat suddenly at his lodgings on Saturday morning. Williams, who was known to his fellow workmen as Isaac, and who was quite a favourite with them from his good-natured ways, had left work at noon on Friday, as ha did nofcfeel well, and as he died without having boen attended by a doctor, an inquest will be held.