ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12899, 9 February 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

COLLISION AND LOSS OF LISE. unued "Ptess Assdciatidn-^er*Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, Februaiy ?. A goods train escaped from a siding and descended a slope'oT Rockies. It collided with a jwwtcDger train at Helms, jq Montana. The carriages were set on fire, and six pemons perished, while twent? weve : ii»juiW.' ..V:*... • • * THK ENTOMBED MINERS. LONDON, February 8. j The two remaining Clacknwonan miners have been rescued. , [An inrush of water on Saturday «n. tombed five men in a mine aft Clackmannan. The rescuers in the upper seam ny»dft a two-inch bore and sent food to three men; also tools to enable them to reach the remaining two men. A father and his two sons were first rescued.} . Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Februuy 8. At the Gisborne race meeting toder, Sweeney, the rider of the horse Inspan. which fell in the Hurdle Race, had hi« shoulder badly fractured.

Mr Silas Sibly. engaged at a quarrv afc ("leniti. met with a nasty accident- yesterday. He was tamping a* charge in a bors when it exploded. Ho "was hnrnl anil vcrr much shaken, and sustained 0 number of wounds more or less serious. One arm and hand vv.e badly hurt, and the saffcr*r had to he taken to the hospital. Lart night he was getting on as well as the nature of his injuries would permit. A painful accident occurred at Hie Saltwater Creek bridge on Wednesday. A young man named Stowell, of St. Andrews, was di ivin<; a three horse team in a dray, across Urn bridge, when a niotoy car, driven by Mr El wort by, approached. It pulled

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