ACCIDENTS AND FATALITLES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15643, 15 June 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITLES

FERRY BOAT SUNK. THIRTY LIVES LOST. United Press Association—By Eiooirin Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 13. It Is reported from St Petersburg that thirty persons wore drowned by tho sinking of ail overcrowded ferry boat m tho River Volga.

fPiiK Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 14. An accident of a somewhat serious nature befel Captain Prosser on the Railway Wharf to-day, while supervising the unloading of somo slag from the Matatua into trucks on the wharf. Captain Prosser was caught and jammed against the sido of a truck, receiving several broken ribs_. and, it is feared, somo internal injuries. Captain Prosser was until lately master of one - of the Shaw, Savill boats, and now holds the position of shore stevedore for the company.

On Wednesday morning Mrs Letitla Brophy, of Pleasant Valley, widow of tho late Mr Kyran Brophy, was found dead in bed. The deceased, who wa» fifty seven years of age, appeared to be in excellent health when she retired on the previous night. The cause of death is believed to have been heart disease. Mrs Brophy was an old restdent of the district. Mr Peter Elder, an employee of tho Canterbury Saloyards Company, was knocked down by a. passing vehicle yesterday, and sustained, slight injurks to one of his feet.