CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14351, 17 November 1910, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

EXPLOSION IN 7 CHINA. Press Association—Bv Tol.-—Copvright SHANGHAI, Nov. V.. By an explosion in a cartridge factory at Pao-ting-fu, twenty-three men were killed and 12 injured. RACECOURSE FATALITY. BRISBANE, Nov. 16. ■I. Broadbent, a jockey, was killed in a race at Toroom. BIG BLAZE IN ADELAIDE. Received f).L>l) p.m.. Nov. IG. ADELAIDE. Nor. 16. The most disastrous city lire fr>r years, practicall destroyed Cinders buildings. large four storey block. embracing tfiirteen business places and offices, the largest being YVhnlas and Orminston. primers. Soloman and Co furniture importers, and the Adelaide Clothinn Co. No ,~t.a:aie ~; the -lavage has been made. Insurances tottl i.--.4&0, d.stivjuted over various companies. SUDDEN COLLAPSE. _ At a quarter past sev. n last evennig, a man named llenrv Shears, who is employed at the Tima-u <niswn;k--was taken suddenly ill a" i,e yes walking along Arthur street bv tho woollen nulls. jl u collapsed on the footpath and was quite unable to '" 0 i 0- i« -V I | sl - ss::l "ce was soon to hand, and Mr shears was eonveved in an express to his home. MOTOR DRIVER KILLED. Per Press Association. , >"E\Y PLYMOUTH. Nov. 16 All accident happened to the motor coach pl vlll between Nuw 1 Opnuake. near Oknra this morning, lhe driver. Albert Stonson was frilled and his brother serio ,s v injured. The coach was rocnnrl,; ' ported by the Co-openltlv" T sp rt Company for the carriage of ~ and passengers, and Stcnson came t from home with it . Thn "t".,,.; " gear gave way while rfosc-ndin.r m |,,TJ and the coach went over a b ,k ov ' turnmg and pinning the dr -or* £, ,~ swamp and suffocating him" 0 ' m a