CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14922, 14 December 1912, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

THE CEXTTRIOX TRAGEDY. LOST' VESSEL KX.OVYX. . Press Association—Rv Tel. --f\,<,-, rirdit LOX'ROX, P,e-.V 12. A lamp found by the Ccnt::r;;u has been identified as ifinnging lo the Italian steame;- Roma, which carried-a crew of f'or!y and was bn.iir.' lhom Memo! to a Welsh port. A sieve-in boat belonging u; the Dcrua. eontniiiing Uie body of a scantily . lad man, drifted ashore on the isle ( ,f Vi / lt . HON FIRE OK CORDITE. Drying stov;s. containing lon.y tons of cordite, at Ardeer. in Ayrshire, ignited, illuminating ike country lor miles. MANY GIRLS HFPT. IX A FiRK PANIC. NEW YORK, Dee. 12. One hundred and fifty > v 'rE -, V( ., T . j m _ perilled in a- lire in a factory: Panic followed the alarm and the giYls emshed into doorways. A.]!, hov, ,ver weir extricated, some being rescued over adjoining roofs. Many were injured. The Otranto sen,*, a wireless message to Colombo statin- that the. after dryair refrigerator is damaged and. theforward machine is working a.!! the holds. PTOMAINE POT3OXLXG. Pep. Press Association. DRNEDIX, Dee. l.j. At the inquest on Iho body of lev Pearce, who died last night, a verdict was returned that death was due' to ptomaine poisoning, as a result of eating decomposed ' rabbit. PIPE ON S.S. HAFP.OTO. The, Lnion Company's island steamer Hauroto, which had been anchored in the stream at Auckland for about two weeks was discovered to be on fire at 2.20 on Thursday morning. The fir« was extinguished after three hours' work by the crew with the assistance of thetiigTeawhitua. The fire had apparently started in a cabin on the port side and spread to the bridge. One lifeboat was destroyed. The damipe is estimated at £100:). The caretaker was fishing off the stern when he noticed a lire in the cabin, where be left a small lamp burning when he. went out. He surmised that it exploded or capsized.