ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13812, 25 January 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DAM BURST ITS BOUNDS. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copvright _>,- LONDON, Jan. 22. - Johannesburg correspondent reports that Knight's dam burst and flooded the Witwaters Rand mine, drowning 10 whites and : 150 natives. STVEPT BY^AVALANCHE. THREE CUMBERS KILLED. Received 4.15 p.hi.y> Jan; 24th. V. BERNE, 1 Jan. 23. An avalanche in Furka Pass in the Alps overwhelmed Major Bayley, of the Royal Artillery; Lieutenant Berkeley Hill; of the Second : Middlesex; Major Meriau, of the Swiss Cavalry; and Bleur, a guide. Only Major Bayley survives. He was 50 yards higher up than his companions.

Per Press Association. INVERCARGJLL, Jan. 24. A horse'doctor name2 David Barclay, a _ resident of ' East. Inyercargill, committed suicide ; at' Oakland's (Pine Bush) on Saturday' j-mdrhing.' '.Deceased was oil, a tour in connection with his calling, -arid put' the night at Mr Richard Mulc'ox's ! place'at Oaklands. He got : -UD'tliis morning and walked to the stable with Mr Miilcox, who left him for a j time.- Coming back afterwards, lie' fojihcl Barclay dead on the floor of the jstablo. with his throat cut, and with-a bloodstained razor at his side. Deceased was a married man with thr&'.sons; the eldest abput 18 or 19, years-old.

Ori Saturday •. afterjapdn an inquest was held at the Courthouse, Waimate, before the! GpKoner, Mr, T. Hutchison, as to the" cause \of death of a sinfdc man named'."'TsJflb'aYu ]jn!s. -Green, who was drowned' : 'whijst'" ; bathing in the Waimate, public bathW Evidence .was uiveit by' Messrs' ' W.! B. Fr'ecmah'' arid W. Elcock, who wore' present, when do-t-eased wVyrit. into' the 1 water, by Mr P'. F. Bennett, who' waij f sent for and had dived and'located the body, nnd by Dr. Hayes, ■ Hvho'. had' fused .all possible mean's for Testorinp animation ' for about half an hour, [the latter part- of the time'assisted- by Br. Pitts. The Coroner decided that/the met his death bj^iirtMdeijtal^diowning.