ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13916, 29 May 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

ONE HUNDRED MEN DROWNED

I»r« s Association-By Telegraph-Copyright LOI"DOX, May 27. A storm in the Bav of Biscay surprised a Spanish fishing fleet. A number of boats were wrecked, and UK) fishermen drowned. SKY BOMB DISASTER. H EA DEP. Received 0.0.l p.m., May fSth. LONDON, M.-y 28. A sky bomb during a fireworks display at Sardinia blew off the heads of two spectators, and injured forty other persons, several of whom will have to undergo amputations. The pyrotechnist was arrested. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 2S. A man named Michael Hazciun, after "being bound over to keep the peace with his wife yesterday, cut lus throat and wrist with a razor. He'was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. INYERCARGILL, May 28. The down train, Lumsden to Liyercargiil this evening ran into a bull this aide of Lady Darkly and the engine and nine trucks were derailed, the enoine being turned over. The driver was thrown clear but was stunned ior .some minutes through contact with a fence. The fireman was pinned down under the debris by arm and back, but both escaped with no more than severe bruises. The accident was niacie known to the passengers by violent bumping but nobody was hurt and the damage was confined to rolling stock. P"nwn«'» way, freight and the bull. The fact that grain freights are heavy just now was aT probable reason why the accident was not much more serious, as there were in this train an exceptional number of grain trucks ahead ot the carriages.