ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1904, 15 June 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, OFFENCES, ETC.

London, June 12. A terrible railway accident is reported from County Armagh, where two excursion trains, laden with 1200 Methodist Sunday School children collided while ascending an incline. One of the trains was derailed. The .forepart, consisting of the engine and '•several carriages ran back into the remaining carriages of the train. It is estimated that a hundred were killed and another hundred injured. Madkas, June 12. A thousand deaths from cholera are reported weekly at dan gam. Chicago June 12. The coroner’s inquest on the body of Dr. Cronin was concluded to-day, and the jury returned a verdict that Alexander Sullivan, P. O’Sullivan. Detective Coughlin, and Frank Woodruffe, were principals and accessories to the murder, A rider was added urging the' authorities to offer a reward for the perpetrators of the crime. The jury also declared that the Clan-na-Grael and similar institutions were injurious to American institutions. Alexander Sullivan has been arrested ou the charge of murder. Auckland, June 13. The dead body of, a man unidentified, was found in the harbour to-day. Dunedin, June 13. A fire broke out in High street, in the upstairs portion of the premises of Rose, Wilson -and Company, and Turnbull and Company. The place was completely gutted and the fire caused great excitement, as there was a performance by the children of the convent school in the theatre at the time, which was just opposite. There was but a very small stock of goods on the premises. Bose, Wilson and Co. had an insurance of £756 on their stock (mostly samples), and the building, owned by Mr Q-. Turnbull, was insured for £I2OO. A man named James Lindsay, a recent arrival in town, who had‘been drinking, was found dead in his bed at the Spanish Restaurant this morning.