CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14341, 13 January 1911, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

* ■ A SENSATIONAL FIRE. Press Association—By Tel.—-Copyright, ' NEW YORK, Jan. 11. A fire destroyed the Chamber, of Commerce buildin at Cincinnatti. Forty occupants were rescued from Jin. adjoining flat. A banquet was :'n progress but the guests escaped uninjured. The roof callapsed and overwhelmed several firemen. Five were injured.and twenty are missing. A FATAL JOKE. ROMS, Jan. 11. Two girls at Parthiico, Sicily, jestingly disguised themselves as brigands and duped a gamekeeper, who fired, killing one. The other was seriously injured. , A STRANGE ACCIDENT. ROME,. Jan. 11. Serafina Donata murdered his son with a chopper, in a church at-Sever-, chaavelling, believing that he had murdered his wife and her father, who opposed his irregular life. A mob attended Serafina to the police station, the floor, of which collapsed and many were injured. A BARQUE MISSING. LONDON, Jan. 13. The fbuKmasted barque Ellisland, from Australia (July 9th) to Oaldera, is posted as missing. THE S.S. PARISIANA. .The " Times" says, there is a balanoe of opinion at Lloyd's whether the Parisiana took fire owing to the oil of turpentine aboard, or foundered. Optimists believe she has broken down. Fairly large reinsurances have been transacted. The Parisiana, 3680 tons, loaded at New York for the A. and'A. Line, and sailed on Ootober 29 for Melbourne, Sydney, and the four New Zealand ports. She called at St. Vincent on November 11, and was due at MeL- ; bourne on December 24. She is now 76 days out. SUEZ CANAL BLOCKED. PORT SAID, Jan, 12. The Dutch liner Lindoro is ashore in Suez Canal, blocking navigation. TWO INQUESTS. THE SHUNTING FATALITY,"

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 12. An inquest was held ats.Mosgjel today on the body of Samuel Tibbes, aged 26, who was fatally injured yesterday. The evidence showed that while deceased was engaged in shunting his, lxiqt must have got caught'in the points,- and he was unable to release it, with the result tfiat eight waggons went over him, cutting off a leg and an arm. It was pointed out that if the deceased had been wearing-elastic-side boots he might have been able to release his foot. The Coroner said that lie would make a recommendation to the Department as to the advisability cf providing elastic-side boots for shunters. A verdict of accidental death, was returned. SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 12. A motor car driven by A. H. Honnor, of New Plymouth, a coach builder, turned turtle at the foot of- a steep part of a country road, near Waitara this afternoon, and some of the party wero badiy injured. There were with him Mrs Honnor and their little son, Mrs T. W. Fisher, wife of Mr Fisher, UnderSecretary for Native Affairs, Wellington, Miss Fisher, and Miss Butler (Mrs Honnor's sister). The account of an eye-witness states that an explosion occurred, as though a tyre-tube had burst.. The car skidded", the back wheel collapsed, and tho car capsized. ■ Mrs Fisher sustained a fracture of the base of the skull, and Mr Honnor was also seriously hurt, and both rendered unconscious. Miss' Fisher and the bov were unhurt, and Miss Butler only slightly. At 11 p.m. there was no change in tho condition a? the two patients. DEATH UNDER WATER. At th» inauest on the body of George Todd who lost b's life while examining the sunken Rise and Shine dredge, the medical evidence was that the valves of Todd's heart were affected, and that lie died from hairt disease. A verdict of denth from natural causes was returned.

Mr Todd, wlio was mred by a bull near New Plvmnutli n day or two ago, died in the hospital to-dny.