THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 44

THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

THE TRAIN DISASTER.

LIST OF KILLED & WOUKDED. Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, April 14. (Receh ed April 15, at 2.14 p.m.) Thirteen of the Eighth New Zealanders were killed in a railway accident near Machavie. A number were injured.

THE OFFICIAL LIST. (Per Uxited Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 15. The Acting-Premier received the following cable early this morning from South Africa through the Governor: — The following were KILLED by a railway accident at Machavie on the 12th inst. : — Private J. Harris. Athol. Southland. Private F. L. D. Lowe, Styx, Canterbury. Private A. H. M'Donald. Oamaru. Private V. H. Brown, Sheffield, Canterbury. Private P. Rogers. Woodhaugh. Dunedin. Privato M. Canty. Long Bush, Southland. Private A. F. Leers (otherwise W. Foss), Wa'hi, Auckland. Private H. Osborne. Middlemarcb, Otago. Private J. Bruce, Oamaru. Private J. Maloney, Little River, Canterbury. . Private C. Bourne, Christchurch. Private J. C Simpson (relatives unknown). Private J. H. Jones, Southland. The following were DANGEROUSLY INJURED:— Private H. Brown, Denniston, Westport. Private Alfred E. Pearson, Oamaru. Private Win. C Grant, Middlemarch, Otago. Corporal D. L. Whitehead, Dunedin. Private T. J>e, Woodlands, Southland. Private W. Wheeler, Waikouaiti. The following were SEVERELY INJURED in the accident : — Private Charles Jones, Dunedin. Private Walter Devon, Gimmerburn, Olago. Private Nicholas L. Thomas, Waimate. Private William Turner, Outram. Private Henry R. Plumridge, Spreydon, Canterbury. Those SLIGHTLY INJURED are : — Private John Edgar, Queenstown. Private James C. Watt.