Accidents and Fatalities.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 7

Accidents and Fatalities.

A .VILLAGE DESTROYED. ; United Press Association.—By Elee-i trie Telegraph.— Copyright. >, - Belgrade, June 23. A cloud burst and destifcyed thevillage of Zenot,! killing £8 persons, t ' , ' IB&x Press Association. Dunedin, June 23. An inquest >■ was held 1 to-day on the body of a man found in an advanced ' -stale of -decomposition in a creek 011 Mi. Gargill. The jury returned a ver'di&t"that deceasad was a person tvhkno^wn, 'wa& found dead, but tiher"e: was no^ slUjfficient evidence to stow,' how he 1 came by his death. Deceased] is believed to be between 30 and 40 j years' oi ager and his- hands presented ■. the apspearanco of a man accustomed* to ''manual labotus f ; ' < lUie man killed 'on the railway at;Wuikouaiti 'has been identifiwl as Wlil-, liam E^an, .a native of Belgium, and 1 a fisherman.. The jury , returned a ver- 1 diet that he met his death while under the influence of liquor by a train"* .passing 1 ,cA r er. him> no plame being at •• tachable to' anyone. ! Thames, June; 23. John M'arkham, a buslinxan at T,u-' rua,' was eru^heß by a log to J day, his arm and 'side beirfg bruised and, crusfced. • ' ' „''.,'• William, Jortes had one of his hamjdis " smashed at' Jxidfl's founidry. > ', Richard Greenwood had a leg baUly smashed while' .unloading doal. . A Miaori was injured in the btteih, . and waa brought to the hosjpital. '■, 'Marion, June 24. John Jefferson, a wo)l itnoWn settler in this district, died tfuddernly atr the residence of his brother this morn-, ing. Deceased was in town yesterday aud appeared to be in robust he&ltih. puneclin, June 24. . ■ George Gaxytbn, ; aged 16, was iiun ;: oVer near Pelichct Bay ptation, a carriage passing over his rigiht leg. ft issupposed that in rising -from a seat on -the platform of tho carriage, his,' foot skidiled... «i ' r '.:x -. -■-. .uwi.' ; 24. ; A young man namckl Alexander Kua-, sell, a driver employed by the'Nev' Zealand Express Co., while, engaged" tr.uc«ki'n| 1 scenery for the M^jerpni Go/ at a railway siding,' was crusfieii; s<>| baJJly between two taweks- that he 1 died.alinpaft im^tnediately. :