ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, -March 20. At a fire in a building containing a refrigerating plant at Pittsburg, thirty men were overcome by ammonia fumes. Five men were killed by an explosion at a mine belonging to the KansasTexas Railway Co. Arthur Sparrow, an old man from Eastern Bush, was found dead on Tuesday morning near the Orawia Stream with his cart on top of him. He was in Otautau on Monday, and made a successful claim for an old age pension. Returning home in the evening lie called in at Smith’s store, Orawia, which he left at dusk. He evidently turned aside at a water-hole to give his horse a drink, and in coming out of the bed of the stream his cart must have overturned. It appears that one wheel had taken the bank, about two feet high, thus causing the capsize, and the driver was thrown out and pinned under the cart. Sparrow was a single man and had lived in the Waiau district for many years. An inquest will be held before a local justice to-day.
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Southland Times, Issue 16692, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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184ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Southland Times, Issue 16692, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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