ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. [Special xo Pbess Association.] SHANGHAI, Oct. 23. Details of the explosion on board the transport at Kurichoo show that most of the officers were killed, while the soldiers rushed the boats. Five hundred persons were drowned. Two hundred others clung to the wreck for seventeen hours and were rescued. [Pbb Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, Oct. 23. Fred Cashell, a lumper, -while discharging cargo from the Anglian, received serious injuries. A heavy slab of marble slipped from the slings, fracturing his spine. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 28. Finlay M’Eae, a married man without family, a farmer at Lora Gorge, was thrown from hia horse yesterday and died within five minutes, his neck, apparently, being broken.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10785, 24 October 1895, Page 5
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