CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14392, 6 January 1911, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

A GREAT EARTHQUAKE. / - Tress Association—By Tel.—Copyright. . LONDON, Jan. 4. Router states that an earthquake lasting five minutes occurred in Russian Turkestan. Half tlie houses in Vyerni wore destroyed, and forty corpses havo boon rccovored. ' Fissures appeared in the oartlt at Kubal. Tlio seismograph at Wost Brmmvidi recorded a shock which was beyond tho capacity of the instrument, aud tho ueedlo brolco. ACCIDENTATTDEATn. Lieut. Sackvilln Wott accidentally sliot himself doad aboard tho Ewlymon at Sheerncss. DEATHS IN A PANIC. St. Louis Church at Potosi, Mexico, whilo packed full of people, was ourned to the ground through a candle sotting fire to tho Now Year decorations. A terrible panic took place, and Htndrods fought for tho exits. Kitftoon poople aro believed to have perished. I COAL DUST EXPLOSION. ! An explosion of coal dußt i.t the Portland cement works, Colorado, j killed six- persons in tho pulvon .-.ig | room. Nine others wore blown out of tho windows and doors. Landing on the snow outside with their clotMng alight, they rolled thomselveß in tho snow and extinguished the flames. TRAIN ON FIRE. ' j Through carelessness, a passenger' carrying a quantity of benzine set file j to a train at Grodno, Austria. ;Muny passengers were burned to death. ' HALLWAY MAN KILLED. SYDNEY, .Tan. 5. A train overran two linesmen *fc Woy Woy. One named Flanagan was killed, and tho other seriously injuioL DEFECTIVE SHIPS' SLINGS. Per Press Association. GISBORNE. Jan. 5. j At the inquest to-day on the body of Charles Paulson, who was killed at the wharf vesterday while working in the hold of a lighter by a sling of salt falling on him, the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. He added 0, rider that ho was of opinion that it was the duty of ail th'pping companies and others to peirwically oxamino and tost _all slings and other appliances used in connection with the shipping nnd discharging of cargo, for tho purpose of ascertaining whether they were, of sufficient strength for the purpose for which j they were required. • The Coroner said he was rS opinion that if such, a precaution ha<* been taken in this case, the death of deceased would probably j have been averted. fataiTkopscotch. DUNEDIN. Jan. '■ _ I An accident ■which occntr'>d at Knitangatn last month terminated lata.lvj in the Dunedin hospital to-day. A girl named EhV.aboth Leitch, aged 11 }«"*, ] was playing hopscotch near her par-1 onlv' r»..-. r di">i.-?. Tl'ii I ; wci-o indis- ; tinct nnd the girl's l : tlle brother was "marking them in with a hayfork. Shr? tripped on the fork nnd fell,, and <ne of the prongs entered her , left eye. After receiving medical attention for a. week slio scorned all rip'it, 'hi>t she subsequently complained of cnina in the head, and was removed to 'he hospital. The cause of death woe an nbcesa en the brain.

•An employee of Watson's carriage factory mid firriery. Tcmukn. named McDonald, had a very ugly Rash' put in one of his lee* on Wednesday, bf a horse he was shoeing suddenly piillmg hack. A half-driven _nail .taught McDonald's leg and cut it to the don*. A fire on Wednesday night dostroyed a stable at lMle'rslio occupied !>v the racehorses Merrigee and Blue Mountain. Tho latter was'rescued, but Merrigee, a promising two-year-old colt owned by Mr R. Hannon, perished in the flames. ,