ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13708, 24 September 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

BURSTING OFATMXCH GUN. THIRTEEN' MEN KILLED, : PVess Asxadfttion-By Te4egraph-oopyrigtrt Received 9.30 p.m., - ' . PARIS, *Sep*s 25. Jusit alter the gunnery recruit/cl ass had concluded firing practice,-. * 7-ix»h 'gnu ou ■ the French: cruiser La Touehe iWsite burst off Toulon, killing 13-men &sd CKbt 4 - tally wounding two other;, „ > v " '„ Per Press Association. ' - , , , , imSo2»YSept. 23.V Particulars of ' the . Appleby cooifch accident show that the pM»jDg*rs hadao Exciting experience. river was in high flood, the western approach -t<> m Mag*.:, m coach driver mistook the , grossing,"' * and drove between thei and, p, fencei. When halfway acru»a .became frightened, and refused 'j# proceed.. They w4ro. cut adfift w44'reacj?isdjti*6 land safely. The passeagers hs*d oojusiderablo fliffiuculty asjjpr^, t . the water being over high, wjjefls of tl»« coad\. Tho mails vrety washed &was% but with the exception of one bag, weiy fecovered to3«y. T , . ' ' "' CHPISTGHCBOH, 25. » ; Enquiries hospital to-day elicited the infongationthafc tb#> J -young jaa»,",o. A- Bryenton, who on "Monday night tempted to conmufc*utei(kr'iqi CrwuMf. Square continues much .in Up/mm? ditioa Rr Crooke thinks that there is a faint chance w«flr«V rag that he has «howru »uoh vitality. ■

DUNEDIN* BeJ»t,. 23, A very etrong wind .pre*iniJe*t «n thei ManiotoSo plains to-dtyr. iu»Oßi»£tog at times to a gale, At Opbir Oiia afternoon a eod '.wall was blown down, faUingon* man named. John Sinnamon. who wawworkjug close,by. His wife ran to his asflwtamv, bat he died almost inqpediately. A very painful accident hjppwied - little boy living in Tenvuka yesterday. He was playing on * i«ofa.' wtd- fell off» breaking hm arm in tlie fall. Dr 'Wmku attended to 4k» injury and tb# bay w now doing a» well a» can ]>a expected.