HOLIDAY MISHAPS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 28 December 1911, Page 5

HOLIDAY MISHAPS.

LONG CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London December 27. The Grimbsy trawler Persian foundered in the North Sea with Its crew of nine. / The explosion of carbide in a cyhni der killed thho Rev. Stephens de j Courcy, who was arranging a limelight .apparatus for a children’s entertainment at Brinscombe. A lire in a tunnel of the colliery at i Nuneaton has idled fourteen hundred. An explosion followed apparently successful efforts to extinguish the out-break of lire after the Brigade had been withdrawn. (R aceived 28, noon.) London, December 27. Terence Barclay, son of a banker, died from the effect of wounds inflicted bv a pet lion at Norwich. (Received 28, 9.50 a.m.) London, December 28. Millstein and his wife, restaurantkeepers, have boon found stabbed and battered with a poker, in Banbury Street, Spitalfields. It is -believed that their house was used for faro gambl ng. The murderers put a feather bed saturated with paraffin above the bodies and fired the house. • (Received 28, 9.50 a.m.) Berlin, December 27. A party of paupers at the municipal shelter have been poisoned. Already fifteen are dead. The cause is unknown. During an entertainment in the east end of Berlin a kinomatograph ignited. The operator’s hands were burnt and his cries of pain caused a panic among the audience, who rushed to the exits. Two children were killed and many seriously injured. Berne, December 27. During a storm at Muehlethal, St. Gallei, a wooden house took fire. A (Woman and her four children perished, and the father was severely burned. (Received 28, noon.) Rome, December 27. A fire was discovered among the mails of the P. and 0. Company’s Isis when two hours’ sail from Brindisi. The outbreak was due to a short circuit. The ship returned to Brindisi. The brigade were all night extinguishing the flames. The Isis has resailed. The English portion of the mail was not affected. Brisbane, December 27. At the Oxley races a horse struck a tree and rolled under the fence amongst the spectators. The rider and two spectators each had a leg broken, and two others were otherwise injured. Adelaide, Decernner 2/. A boat capsized on Lake Torrens, and a man named Busch and a woman named Miss Irish were drowned. (Received 28, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, December 28. A pontoon supporting a landing platform capsized at Mornya.. Thirty people were thrown into the river, and were rescued with difficulty,* Alice Norden shot Robert Lee in the forehead with a revolver in Alexandria Park last night, ail'd afterwards committed suicide by drinking lysol. Lee’s condition is not serious'. They had been drinking together. (Received 28, 10.40 a.m.) Melbourne, December 28. Acoach accident happened (at Mount Dandenong. A party of-fourteen picnickers were driving when the horses swerved off the road, and the waggonette was K precipitated down the mountain side. All were injured. One was conveyed to Melbourne badly crushed. Others were too seridus to he moved. Particulars are meagre. (Received 28, 9.51 a.m.) Hobart, December 28. William Whiter,- miner, had a terrible experience white working on a race alone. A big stone fell, pinning him by the tegs. He was not discovered for six days, water passing over the lower portion of his body the whole time. He is expected to recover. Auckland, December 27. A young man named W. Andrews was drowned while crossing the Ongarue River, which was in flood, on Christmas Day, -,in a Maori canoe. There were three others in the canoe, who did all they-could to save him, but without avail. The deceased was employed on the railway construction works. The body has not been recovered. Christchurch, December 28. Ellen Grimshaw, 37, wife of a greaser at the Belfast Freezing Works, was burnt to death in a fire which destroyed her house at Belfast this morning. The wife was alone in the house at the time, her husband having left for work. The deceased only arrived from Lancashire a week ago to join her husband. She had no family. Dunedin December, 27. John Corlaw aged six years, residing with his mother in Athol Place, was the victim of a fatal accident about 5 p.m. to-day. He and two other boys were playing about two empty trucks in a coal yard, and Corlaw had his feet against one and his hack against another, endeavouring to shift the latter. The. truck was blown hack by the_ force of the wind, and the lad’s chest was badly crushed between the buffers. He ran home, but fell down immediately he arrived there. He was removed to the hospital, but died a few minutes later. Lajos Deveschei a Hungarian employed by Mr. Bastian, of Wirth’s circus, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself in the stables connected with the Farmer’s Arms Hotel. He was seen about ten o’clock when he seemed to he all right. At 11.45 Mr. Bastian found him hanging by the neck in a loose box. Deceased could not speak English. It is said he threatened to kill himself during the time the circus was at Invercargill. A married woman named Rdofski, aged 35, died suddenly at Middlemarch last night. The cause of death is unknown. " She had been in good health and was quite cheerful prior to her death.