ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10662, 24 May 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EXPLOSION OJ? A POWDER MILL. [Special to Press Association.’! SAN FRANCISCO, May 22. A gunpowder mill exploded near the city, and fourteen persons were killed. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. MADRID, Mat 22. News has been received that the Spanish steamer Gravina foundered in a cyclone, off Luzon, iu the Malay Archipelago, one of the largest islands of the Philippines. The accident was attended with sad loss of life, only three out of one hundred and seventyone souls on board being saved. RESCUED, NEW YORK, May 23. Tho miners entombed at West Yirginia have been rescued. DISASTROUS GUN EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, Mat 23. China news reports a terrible explosion at Woosung. A nine-inch, forty-ton gun used in the recent war, burst, killing fortythree men on the spot. [Peb Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Mat 23, The body of Henry Haliiday was found in a dam at Messrs Ross and Glendining’s woollen mills, Kaikorai. Deceased, who was at one time working in the mills, has been missing for a weak. Mr John Richards, a small farmer, residing at the sandhills, near Butwood, died suddenly yesterday. He was fiftyone years of age, and had been ailing for some time with an aneurism. About half-past five o’clock yesterday morning his son heard an unusual noise in the bedroom, and, on going in, found him unconscious. Another son went to Mr Reece’s house, and telephoned for medical aid. Dr De R’enzi, who had attended tho deceased about six months ago, arrived about seven o’clock, but found that he was dead. An inquest will be held at the Bower Hotel, New Brighton Road, at 11 a.m. to-day.

Mr W. Acton-Adams met with an accident on Wednesday evening. He was driving a light gig from the Waipara to Tipapa, and when going along the Omihi Flat his horse shied at a saddle hanging on a fence by the roadside, Mr Adams was thrown out of the trap and severely shaken, also receiving slight injury to his spine. Ho was conveyed to his residence at Tipapa by Mr M’lnnis, who happened to be passing at the time. Dr Fitzhenry was summoned from Amberloy to attend him. The horse bolted and wrecked the trap, A DYKE DISASTER. [Per San Francisco Mail.] The great Bonay dyke in the Epinal district of the Vosges was broken on April 27, and involved immense destruction of life and property. One hundred and fifteen deaths ware reported on April 28, but the sum total is supposed to be much larger. It is probable that many of the dead were swept away into isolated places where it will bs a long time before the bodies are found. The sound of the bursting dam was heard several miles away. Tim great rush of water lasted about fifteen minutes. Standing on the hill above, the reservoir, which is now quite empty, looks like ah immense black hole in the landscape. The distress among the dwellers in the valley is very great, and in many cases they appear to be mentally benumbed by the calamity that has fallen on them. The construction of this dyke was commenced in 1879, and finished in 1884. It was of heavy masonry, 550yds long, 66ft high and 66ft thick at the base.