ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13241, 22 March 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

ENTOMBED IX A MINE. United Press Association- —Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH. March 21V i. --A sudden inrush of flood- water in the Westralia. East mine caught- nine men in the workings. Eight escaped and one man was entombed. He was ••subsequently heard knocking. It will take ten days to pump the water out of the mine, and the chances of rescue are considered » poor, THROWN INTO THE MOLYNEUX. . SHOCKING TRAP ACCIDENT. THREE PERSONS DROWNED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN. 'March 2\. Mi- George Sandilands, of Balclutha, his wife, arid their child, were capsized | from a trap into the Molyneux River last , night. . Particulars of the accident show that Mr Sandilands was returning to Balclutha from a-visit to in a single, buggv. with 1 his wife and child of twenty, months, when the vehicle fell over a sleep bank on the narrow road imir the. river. All three were drowned. . The; mishap was witnessed by Mrs Morrison, music teacher, -who was riding on horseback. Dragging for the bodies: has been continued witlKVut "success',-'' but- the horse, alive, and the buggv; have been rescued. In .the buggy Were found two bottles of whisky in a brown : paper parcpl. . The couple were aged 1 about'3s, and had been a year in Balclutha. Formerly |hey belonged to Dunedin. The "Star's" Balclutha correspondent telegraphs that- the supposition -is that the driver was intoxicated, «r><l the trap backed over the' bank, the occupants being pitched into the stream, . which;' there, runs swift, and deep. jSaaidilands was unfortunately addicted to . drink. . i\ AUCKLAND, March 21. \Williani Aneslibncle fell 15 feet, from; a at the Calliope dock to-day, receding internal injuries, the extent of .\vlfch"is -not. yet known. \ MASTERTO.N, March 21. N4,w.s has -been- received; -here ~ that, a, man,\ name unknown, committed: suicide to-dai at -Tikitapu Station. ) GISBORNE. March 21. • Mr Parpe, a travelier- for/the Phoenix. Company, died in the Hospital to-night from tricture of the. skull, throiijrli enllisiow bfesveen a liorse he was. riding and a- horse buggy-; No further particulars are ibtainable. WvERCARGILLi March 21. An unknown man. abqub 70 years of age, fell among the milk cans oil the railway station i this Wening, was picked up, but died before V doctor arrived. Deceased held a. ticket Fairfax.