ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12142, 10 August 1903, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A TRAIN ON FIRE. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9 a.m., August Bth. LONDON, August 7, . The Great Western Railway Company's special train conveying Lord Falmouth's household took fire through the groom, smoking in a horse-box. Three valuable; horses were burned to death, and the" groom was seriously injured. SHIPPING AND RAILWAY DISASTERS.—TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Received 12.20 p.m., August Bth. - LONDON, August J. In connection with the British naval manoeuvres now proceeding, a boiler, explosion occurred on the cruiser Blake. One man was killed and six-men were injured. " '" "NEW YORK, August 7. A collision occurred on the Grand Trunk iailway at Durand, Wisconsin. Wallace Bros.' circus was wrecked, and nineteen persons were killed and thirty injured. Per Press "Association. THAMES, August 8. An elderly man named Charles Smith, a County Council employee, fell off the train at Kopu, near the Thames, this evening, and was run'over. One arm was severed above -the elbow. He was taken to the hospital, where it is reported his condition is"-serious. • . ,

August 9. An old man. named Bishop was founddead in a ruinous cottage in which he had lived iere. The odour showed that the-man had been dead for some days. The "cottage 1 was burned, to-day by order of the authorities.