CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14321, 11 October 1910, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

(By Cable.) An exnlosion occurred at Stackville mine, Trinidad. Colorado, and a hundred miners are reported to be entombed. • Vickers, Son and Maxim's joiner's shop and tracing department at Barrow lias been destroyed by lire. The loss is £50,000. The steamer Kum Chow was burned in Chinese waters. One hundred and fifty lives were lost. A shunting accident occurred at Oakleigh, Victoria, similar to the recent ballast accident. The engine struck the rear part of a ballast train being shunted. Five carriages were damaged, hut nobody was injured.

The steamer Nubeena, bound f rom Tasuian's Peninsula to Hobart, went ashore at Frederick Henry. Passengers and crew were landed safely, but it is not thought that th steamer -:an be refloated.

(Per Press Association.) _ A girl ten years of age named Nellie St. Leonard died in the Auckland Hospital as a result of scalds. She was endeavouring to open a window when she fell into a vessel containing boiling water, an dwas terribly scalded.

James Burgess, a blacksmith of Ashburton. had_ a thigh broken yesterday by a kick from a horse he "was preparing to shoe. Mrs Dawson, widow of the late Colonel Dawson. Auckland, was found drowned in a well near the back door of her residence. She had been depressed lately, after an attack of influenza.

SUFFOCATED BY GAS. Charles Stanley Ellison, second son of Inspector Ellison, was found on Sunday night suffocated by gas in the bottle store of Staples' brewery. Wellington. Young Ellison. who had been suffering from influenza, took severely a scolding by his father, who told him to find employment promptly, and ne did not return home. On' Saturday night, in turning off a light in the bottle store. Ellison apparently did not notice that the tap on the branching tube to the heating room had been left open. The night-watchman found him last night, but artificial respiration was unsuccessful. He was twentyfour years of age.

A fire at :i cinerautOErnph entertainrreiit at Balniam (X.S.W.) caused a jrtuic. by which twelve persons were injured. Five were taken to the hospital. DOCTORS DIFFER. Theologians also. Just as very man thinks he la a We all speculate as to whether i ulj lives live for ever. What is one man's meat is another man's poison. What .■* pain to me is joy to yo u and contrariwise. ' The relativity of pleasure is almost complete. Your bootblack dors not wish to edit a paper, and you don't wish to liy 0 in Buckingham Palace. The baffled millionaire who finds the Kohinoor is not for sale is probably no more disconsolate and no less disthan the beggar boy who only has a ha'penny, and knows that his favourite tart is priced at twice that sum. Finally, Heaven gives us our relations — Thank God -ve can choose our friends and our Ointment. To recapitulate, Doctors, Theologian:;, et hoc genus omne may differ, hut all who have experience agree that Red Cross Ointment stands alone as tl:o greatest thing in cures, hecnusp wherever there is a skin affliction, Re! ",'rcss Ointment will, after the first ap-.■>!ir-i.tir:n. absolutely be>;in its miraculous, bralins u ork.