ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13774, 10 December 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. ELEVEN INDIANS KILLED. : Press Association-Bv Telearaph-Copyrigiit CALCUTTA,.Dec. 8. An accidental ox plosion at a eartrid«4«» factory •at Dnniduni, Benga, killed 11 natives and injured 26- , A RAILWAY SMASH. TRAIN lUJNS.AWAY. .• SYDNEY, Dec. 9. A railway smash occurred yesterday in the Blue Mountains. A portion of a goods train broke away on the zig-zag, and rrnnning back, collided with a goods train on the Clarence siding. " An engine and" twenty-five trucks were derailed, and badly smashed. A portion' caught fire, hut the; flames were soon extinguished. Two guards, an engine-driver, and a passenger, were injured, but Jiorie seriously. DEATH OF THE GUARD. PASSENGERS' MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Received 1.22 a.m., Dec. 10th. SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Costello, the guard, died- of his injuries. The passengess had a miraculous escape. A runaway vehicle dashed down a grade of 1 in 40 at a terrific pace. The passenger cars which were at the end of the train became the foremost on the mad rush downwards. When the breakaway occurred the derailment of the waggons following the car stayed the onward progress nnd saved the lives of the passengers. The train was laden with copper, wool, chaff and wool, which burned fiercely. When the fire'broke* out hundreds of men working on a deviation of the line threw earth on the fire and extinguished it. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. A man named H. Crowder, while employed in shunting at the Auckland railway station, fell and <jot his head caught between two trucks. He sustained serious injuries, and was conveyed to the hospital where he died. NEW PLYMOUTH. Dec 9. •U Tikorangi on Monday night a tier' fell across the tent of a Maori, who was emploved felling hush, crushing him and Ins wife. Both were removed to the New Plvmouth l.ospita. where the woman died last night. Ihe man is seriously injured. DINKDIN. !><"•- n - Nathan Harnett, GO years ot age. an inmate of the Benevolent Institution, wandered away yesterday, and was picked up by the poll.- at night, atd U!l(1 e ....mfortable. hut he ch.nl ear > this morning. The evidence at the qllt . st showed that he *"«?"} fr valvular disease ot the hen • dropsy, and a verdict was returned a. In < ; <,..iie<t,<.n with the J...U ' Natl.:... Harnett. in <he H»" '« »" ea.lv this nn.r g. the He* . A- ■ Cho.'lowski (Hahb.) auoeare.l Ih-lop- th said that he thought the „,:...:.«. r» the benevolent institution had ll " t «.. nro.-r attention to his duty, m thut he left deeeaScd .1, the pol.ee ee s :il l „,uht. as he mu,t have know" lh. dan-"i..us nature ol d.-.eased s complaint (hear, trouble). Mr U- <"»»»- ~.r,.r ~f the institution) said that imnuHliatelv deceased was .Hissed tj.ur ,„..„ were 5..„. .o Mar.!, .'or h.m. hut »itl...ui avail. At VKW p.»t he d.s,.„ssed the matter with the noli.-e. and •irraiu-'.-d that it Harnett was joiind at "., | ;ll .r 1...111- he should be kept 111 the station till mo. inn;'. 'I hi- ■ihmj: h<was advised that the man was dead. It Was .lee„!ed that Mr fhodoWskl > -e :. f ked to make a loiinai i uiiiplutnt. and , It., t i!,e matter he I 1...1 oiw-hly silted.