ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12797, 2 October 1905, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

TERRIBLE TYPHOON. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. United Press Aaociation—Per Electric . Telegraph—Copyright. Received 4.45 p.m., October Ist. HONGKONG, September 30. Eleven Americans and 24 natives were drowned by the foundering of an old gunboat. at Manilla during a typhoon. At Soitoogbn. 15' natives were drowned, Mid the damage done to the hemp plantations is estimated at one million dollars.

| GREAT HAVOC BY CYCLONE. CAPETOWN, September 30. A .cyclone ploughed through the centre of AMmesbury, .Cape Colony, razing fe™areds of bouses. Six persons were'HUed and many injured. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 1. A resident of Durham street named Charles Burtenshaw was found in the domain by an employee of the Kauri Timber Company with his throat cut- from ear to ear. The unfortunate man dead. A razor, found lying alongside the evidentl 7 been the iratrament used. There were no papers or in fact anything to show the reason of the suicide.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. A single man named Walter Hesketh, employed by White and Co., timber merchants, Addington, was killed this morning by a heavy piece of timber falling on him end fracturing his skull.

.... . t October 1. At the inquest held on the body of the Chinaman who hanged himself in his cell at the Lyttelton gaol on Thursday night, the medical evidence given showed that the committ * J suicide while in "a nt of brooding depression. A verdict was rettfrned accordingly. * ,°* J 0 !" 1 Eckmann, & seaman on the Lyttelton Harbour Board's dredge, who was drowned through the capsize of £- ay ? W»"ww found floating m Lyttelton Harbour this afternoon, and was taken possession of by the police.