ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12905, 17 February 1906, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING: t United' Press 1 Association—Per Telegraph—Copyright. ) Received 1 a.m., February 17th' BRISBANE, Februarv ib. While taking clothes off the line .two girls named...Crouch, were, killed by lightning at. Endoyei;.: : ;-Thsir mother was ieiidered senseless, ;.but has ■ Per Press Association. FELLDING, February 16. : A serious -accident happened at noon to Mr C. Newall;■; of rMakino, while' driving to Felding. The .horse capsized the' ve;hide.,and. JMr Xewall was dragged. ■ He lies at the Manchester Hotel in°a critical eonditipn. -Mrs Newall and her daughter injured. "i'.f\' ■■■' ° ■ DUXEDIN, Februaiy 16. I The Coroner's jury at Cromwell bad a difficult task set them in deciding whetheithe body found in the Molyneux river-was that of David Anderson, a'dredgemaniwho fell into the Clutba river while going. ashore on a line; or that of James/Steel-who has been missing from the Clyde since the new year. After .considering for an hour and a half the jury found a verdict by; four to two that the body was that of "David Anderson, and that he met his death by accident in Cromwell. There is a general belief that -the body was not Andersons.

An accident which: might- have terminated with, serious consequences occurred at! Mara's crossing, 1 Lower Opihi, on Satur-' day,night last. .Mr C. Balfour, of Ti- j m artt,,was croasing.in a boat belonging | to the Maoris,, when one of the bars = became jammed and he was. carried down into the heavy rapid immediatelv : above Burke's pool. Fortunately for Mr Balfour;-the boat lodged oh a snag in mid stream and his calls for assistance were heard bv„ some fellow-anglers, who were mimediatelv" named bcotty entered river which was in high flood at the time, and wadln<* down stream in some five feet of water° managed to secure the boat and eventuallv piloted it to terra firma. But for the fortunate presence and plncky action of Seotty, the end might not, have', been so happy as the river "(sweeps'"in under a large grove of willows at that point and the boat would have been assuredly upset.