CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14416, 11 April 1911, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

POLICE PATROL MISSING. Press Association—Bv Tel.—Copvright OTTAWA, April 9. • There are fears for the safety of a North-west mounted police patrol which.left Herschel Island, within the Arctic circle,, in December and has not been heard of since. '■ ■" MINING CASUALTIES. ' .WASHINGTON, April. 9. Tlie death roll at -Throop was seventy four. When the bodies" reached thU pit month the undertakers fought to secure the, cqrpses, hoping to obtain burial fees.'"- There were disgraceful scenes until the police interfered. 'Sixty convict workers were killed by an explosion in the Banner coal mines', Littleton, Alabama., Two hundred were entombed. The death. at tlie. Banner mine disaster exceeds a hundred all told. Few bodies are recoverable or - account of.tin black.damn. The victims are mostly nejuvi convicts Forty-five workers noticed- black'darem and dished 111 the direction of 'tho shaft, and were rescued jn the "nick of "time. BIG FIRE'-IN TOKIO. ..'_;■:,.: April 10. _By fire in. the Yoshiwaru quarter 5000 houses wor* destroyed, and 6000 women aro homeless.. SHOCiqN^pATASraOPHE. 200 PEOPLIfioASTED. BOMBAY, April 10. A thatched 'festival building with only one exit, northward of Poona. s% destroyed by. fire, and two hundred people were burned to death. . THE YONGALA". ' BRISBANE, Anril 10. Several more bags 'of the Yongala'-s mails have been recovered, but the contents are mostly reduced to pulp Cargo is now commencing to come ashore.