ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11661, 21 January 1902, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

■ O- ' Unit** Press Associates—Per Electrli leiearaph—Copyright. - Received 10M a.m.. Jariuary-20th. • MADRID, January 19. ■■ ' An explosion" In. a spinning factory at Mauresu caused the collapse of the .bunding, burying the workmen, sixty of whom were killed and a hundred injured.

MELBOURNE, January 20. A boiler exploded at a sawmill at the Grampians. A man named Short was killed and another seriously injured. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 20. A child named John McCoy, aged two years, was drowned in Tahekeroa. creek, near Helensville. He was accompanied by his mother, who missed him and found his body ten minutes after in a creek. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. NAPIER. January 20. A lad named Benjamin Downing was drowned whilj bathing in the river at Clive. He got out of his depth, and sank, and although the body was recovered shortly afterwards, all efforts at resuscitation were unavailing. An old man earned John O'Leary was found lying in a semi-conscious condition on the road near Taradale. He was removed to the nearest hotel, where he died before medical aid arrived. A post mortem examination revealed the fact that death was due to syncope, caused by failure of the heart's * action, and a verdict was returned accordingly. WELLINGTON, January 20. The body of a man between 50 and 60 years of age was found floating in the harbour to-night. In a pocket-book was found a paper bearing the address " J. G. Brown, Oakburn station. Wallingford, "FTnvrVec "Rn-v " The V<V» ~™<- ~nt- i

been identified. It had only.been.in the. water a few hours. GREYMOUTH, January 20,. ; Mr Gillingham's body has. ,not yet been found. He leaves a family of 15 children. He had been accustomed to pack stores across the Seven Mile Creek for over 30 years. The creek was in flood at the time. He might have crossed by a bridge higher up, only it. would have taken him a quarter of an hour longer. The horse trappings showed that it had rolled over in the water. CHRISTCHURCH, January 20. Mr Francis Thomas, 8?. years of age, badly fractured his thigh in "getting off the city "and suburban tram whilst it was in motion a week ago, and died in the hospital to-day. At the inquest, a verdict of accidental death was returned.