ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13316, 19 June 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

— -. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. THIRTY PERSONS KILLED, i'ress Association-By Telegraph-Copyright LISBON, June 17. Aii explosion of dynamite, attributed to the agency of dismissed workmen, wrecked a. building at Covelha and killed thirty persons. Per Press Association. • ' BLENHEIM, June 18. An inqutst was held yesterday on the body of the prisoner, Cliarle:i HuHyilton Moir, who was drowned in the Awatere River on Saturday. The evidence showed that four prisoners we're amusing themselves by floating logs in the stream. Moir held a tetlref to ;i log. which lurched, pulling him into the water. The other prisoners Irkd to rescue him, but- failed. Moilwas taken out of the water ten minute« later, but life was extinct. The medical evidence showed that he had a weak heart. A verdict of accidental death by drowning wa-? returned, with no blame attachable to anyone. Tfe jury conimended his comrades for attempts to rescue him. GREYMOUTH, June 18. WhiUt. the barque River Boyne was being towedWp se;i about 4 o'clock thi'i afternoon, and 1 when about two miles from the bar, ii wamai) named Owen Griffen, a native of Wales, was lost overboard. A buoy was promptly thrown to him, but it was soma time before the tug could be stopped. The tug went back over the course the barque had travelled, but though the buoy was found the tug was unsuccessful in finding Grifl'en's body.