ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5920, 11 October 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

$ , ■ LONDON, Oct. 8. The party exploring the Whitehaven nine must have reached the seat of Ihc explosion, whore they found the l hoilies of lire men who had been terribly injured and Turned. The force of (ho explosion had swept everything before it. A ward of Leeds infirmary was gutled by lire. hour hundred and lifty patients, ineluding 30 children, were satelv removed. NEW YORK, Odl. 8. Six convicts effected a sensational escape from Sing Ling prison, New York. NEW YOtRK, Oct. 7. 'l'wo men have been arrested at Los Angeles in connection with the dynamiting, and the detectives are don 11dent that they have captured the actual perpetrator. Bush fires destroyed Graceiown, a Minnesota village. The inhabitants are believed to have escaped, but are still unaccounted for. Rainstorms’ flooded a strip of country extending from Eastern Texas across Northern. Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. The area is almost an inland sea. Trains are at a standstill. VANCOUVER, Oct. S. Great forest fires have swept Northern Minnesota and Western Ontario, and property worth millions has been destroyed. The towns of Beaudette and Spooner are on fire. Railway rights-of-way are strewn with the corpses of those trying to escape. Thousands are homeless, and hundreds have perished. CAPETOWN, Oct. li. 'Hie Transkei Kaffirs employed on the construction of the German radnay at Wilhclmstad, mutinied. 'The troops suppressed the outbreak, killing twelve and wounding ton. SYDNEY, Oct. S. May’s motor garage at Letch unit was destroyed by Arc. Six motors were burnt, two being the properly of Mr Norman Grant, a recent arrival from "New Zealand. The damage is over .€SOOO. The cause of the outbreak was a spark from a mo tew which was being tested. The steamer Taiyuan sprang a leak in harbour just before sailing for Hong Kong. It will be necessary to discharge a portion of the cargo and dock the steamer. Her departure has been delayed indefinitelv. MELBOURNE, Oct. 7. The Court of Inquiry into the wreck of (he Carnarvon Bay found that the course taken by the captain was -ustilicd. Tut that the ship was not navigated in a careful seanianlikc manner from the time thing Island was sighted. Not efficient look-out was kept, when the steersman was steering by the land. The loss was due to striking a reef or rook. There was insufficient evidence to show whether the rock was chartered.! .It was decided to call the Tasmanian Government e attention to the possibility of the cxisteno of an uncharted rock.