ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13939, 26 June 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

NINE TOURISTS JIROWNED

Press -Associatioii-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, June 24..

Nine London and American tourists were drowned in a squall in Lower Killarney Lake.

TWENTY-FOUR MINERS KILLED

NEW YORK, June 21

An explosion entombed sixty-five men in the Wehram colliery, in Pennsylvania. Twenty-four, mostly Poles and Hungarians, were killed. SUICIDE*. Received 11.5 p.in,,. June 25th. LONDON, June 25. Harold Gurrcy, a wealthy' stockbroker, has committed suicide.

BURNT TO DEATH,

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, June 21. A woman named Clara Johnston was burnt to death at Renmcra' this evening. .. The fatality was caused, by a spark from a stove igniting the woman's dress. ATTEPMTED SUICIDE. NELSON, J"i\" 25. A man named George Alldridgo attempted suicide at Mann to-day by cutting his throat. He lies in a serious condition in the hospital. He had been despondent lately. DEAD FOR DAYS. • MASTERTON, June* 25. A colonist named Hunt, aged 70 years, was found dead at his residence, Opaki, this' morning, with a revolver wound in the. head and the weapon in bis hand. He lived alone, and is believed to have had considerable, meaus. .No cause is assigned for the act. Probably the. maii had been dead since Wednesday. MINER, DROWNED. DUNEDIN, June 25. Andrew Wilson, a miner, aged 40, was drowned in-the Waipori river near the township this morning. Deceased had been drinking. The body has been recovered. A SOLDIER'S DEATH. INVERCARGILL, June 25. Staff-Sergeant-Major Taylor, of the Otago Military District, who has been stationed in. Invereargill for the last three years died suddenly this evening while reading a newspaper at his home. The cause of death is supposed to be heart failure'. Sergeant-Major Taylor : came from Scotland' to Ota 20 about nine or ten years' ago and be was exceptionally popular' with "the volun--1 teers. He was 40 years of age.