ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13449, 22 November 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

STRUCK BY 1 LIGHTNING., * Press Association-By lelegraph-Copyrighi SYDNEY, "November 21. An aborigines': camp at Bell .Brook: wps struck by ifghtning. : One native wai killed and • three natives weve . injured. Per Press Association. s MASTERTON, Nov. 21. A runaway ..horse galloped- through a plate gi-a:?s window of HaUenste:;n'.s: Clothing Factory, ~smashing three panes and a number of mirrors - inside, and doing damage to the extent of £7O or £BO, besides, cutting; itself about-. r INYERCARGILL, Nov. 21. , On Monday evening Ml~s Davidson while driving home to Glenor.chy, stopped to throw an orange to, .an. oldi man. One of-' i'lva re'niM fell «nd. startled the Jiorip, and Mrs Davidson in endeavouring to lecover thw rein frll, was kicked on the head .and killed- instantly. The [horse bolted 'till pulled up by the lose -rein entangling in tlie; axle and; was caught by the husband of the deceased who found his little daughter uhlnirt in the bottom of .the" trap. •While a man ' named Oscar Kosab was riding on the. Main Road near Washdyke, about 6 ]im. on Wednesday, his horse shied -and ,fell on its side with the l-ider, whose right leg was broken in two )}]ac;«. Constable Hammond took out. Die ambulance and returned with the sufferer, who* was taken to 'the hospital. A mp.ll, 27 years of age. named John. F. Harris, wa - found dead in ili°. srarden at his home., .Parsonage Road, Waimate, having -anpa-rent.lv. committed suicide. The cVv-nsfd had been out for ;i day's..fishing.-, a.nd rehirned home; ot. about. 9 o'clock and was subsequently found with the :-ade of his head blown aw-Vy by a gun-shol.