ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13903, 14 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

TWENTY WOMEN DROWNED

Press Association-By. Telegraph-Copyright

NEW 7 YORK, May V2

The steam launch Pittsburg, while crossing tlie Ohio, capsized, and twenty out fit' thirty women were drowned. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 13. Lucy Kingston, a single woman cm ployed" as si domestic servant, whose parents reside at Maori Hill, dLvl in the -hospital last night under ciivtirnstanees which necessitated the holdii'i; of an* inquest. She was admitted, to the institution on Tuesday last, but sh? declined to make any statement as «o the cause of her .illness. • A post mortem, was held on the body- by Dr Roberts to-day, and -the inquest was opened this' afternoon, but adjourned to enable the police to make further inquiries; .

Two rather serious accidents happened in the senior football, match on the Athletic grounds yesterday, a player in each team sustaining a. broken collar-bone. The,' unfortunate ones were D. Clark and E. . Williams. A detachment of the Ambulance. Brigade rendered first aid in one case, and Dr. Dryden attended to the injured man in the other. " Neither accident could be attributed to rough play, pure misadventure being the cause. •