ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOURTEEN PERSONS iSUFFO CATTED. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright ; NEW YORK, Deo. 7. Fourteen persons' were suffocated by fire in a. tunnel in the course of construction, between New York and New Jersey. TWO SISTERS DROWNED. MELBOURNE, Dec 7 A gul named Lily Kean, mlio Md.s feiiffeung fiom melaiuholia, lwhed into the sea. Hei sidei *Ment to the ie s cue, and I both were drowned. Per Press Association. WHANGAREr. Dec 7 Rita Bioun. aged 18 months, daughtei of a -ettlei at Pukepuhi, was found dioMiiel in a cieok at Kaimamaku. She mas last soen ,\h\ c playing m ltli two other hildieu outbid* half an Jioui befoie the body was fo'tind < Dec 7 Mi T M Giant, acting chief «-unojoi of the Lands Office, Mho broke liu leg m a coaeli accidcint it Matakntaki a foitnight arro, r 1 ! d at Muieluston this moining. The body i« being bi ought to Nelson Mi Gi ant leaves a m ldbw and t-n o ch 1chen DUNEDIN, Dec 7 I George Stilling, stoiekeeper <at Pehchet i Bay, died suddenly, seemingly of heait dusease 'Helen Mdaggail, aged 68, Mas found dead by her husband on the floor of her bedioom