ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FSpecial to Press Association,] TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. LONDON, Feb. 14. A email arms factory at Leigh exploded accidentally, and the directors and several others were killed. FPek Press Association.! NAPIER, Feb, 13. Anthony Gordon was at work in a paddock at Hastings when, ho dropped down dead, the cause being heart disease. He was a single man, a potato dealer. The police yesterday received a telegram from Sergeant-Major M’Donald, Timarn, stating that Mra Margaret Dixon, wife of Frank Dixon, manager of the Cave Station, had been found drowned in a creek near their home at nine o’clock this morning'. A peculiar accident happened to Mr Carson Wilson, of Ashley, on Saturday. He was working a reaper and binder, and something going wrong with the machinery he mounted the binder to readjust it. The horses moved forward, causing Mr Wilson to slip on to the binding table, and the eompresser arms gripped one of hia legs. He stopped the team, and it was found necessary to break part of the machinery to release him. His leg was badly bruised.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10273, 15 February 1894, Page 5
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180ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10273, 15 February 1894, Page 5
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