ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13989, 26 August 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FATAL EXPLOSION. Press Asspciat.ioii-By Telegraph-Copyright V-.GENEVA, August 24." The latest repbits , show; that fifteen persons were killed and thirty : injured by - the .explosioti' of the gasometer. 4it Geneva. -. SHOCKING IN.TI'RIES. ; , Per Press Association. GLSBORNE, August 25. Charles. Beard,' whilst clearing a fence . line at' ' Motii yesterday was .struck by a branch of a tree, which tore out his right eye and a portion of the side of his face. While suffering great agony lie"-; was - "carried- by stretchers and sledge many -miles, and brought to Gisborne "Hospital. FROM N \TTRAL C\USES WELLINGTON, August 25. At the adjourned, inquiry into - the death,of Ernest R. Redding, a : yonhg married man; : who l - died rather: suddenly some-days ago, the. Governnment analyst stated that the-contents ol' the stomach contained no poison, neither did the contents ot a bottle ol medicine prescribed for the deceased.' A verdict of death- from pneumonia was returned. LOST IN. THE SNOW. CHRISTCHURCH, A ngus t 25. " .The search' for -this - missing . man, Donald McLean,./at ITanmer Springs, has been abajidoned for the, present, there being no hope of finding liim alive. '" Constables Bird, - of Culverden, Lewin,.- of Aniberley;: and Sniitliers, . of Kaianoi, wlio. had been conducting,the search with the assistance of a number of., volunteers, • rettirned «.to : their stations yesterday. . ' ■ Constable Bird, -who had = beeri out for a week, suffered, sonie rough experiences- : He, was joined by-/the -other e.o.nr >-tirbles <)ir Frid:iy/ and there;"was' no la y -t- of volunteers for. the work. The cold was 'intense, * and when one member of the party fell into the Wver bis clothes Hverii. frozen hard o;i him. The snow has beeii rapidly-melting, a"d if there is iio; further ff?]l there will be n. better prospec.t-of finding -traces of McLean.,' He was t-lip-tv-f'vo yeo'-s -of pri-o and - it '" ibat he had no relktive'S in Ne,w Zealand.