ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
♦ [Special to Press Association.] MINERS SUFFOCATED. MADRID, Feb. 17. Twenty-seven miners have been suffocated by the escape of gas in a lead mine in Nazzawn. The wives and families of the deceased rushed to the scene of the disaster, and most pitiful scenes were witnessed.
[Pee Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Fbb. 18. J. G. Smith, when rolling bales of wool off a stack at Fort Chalmers this morning, was knocked down by another dumped bale, which fell on him and killed him. Sophia Jacobs, five years old, fell off some steps at a wharf on to a atone, receiving a compound fracture of the ekull. Recovery is doubtful.
Mr Abraham Bowley, who met with a : serious accident at Lake Forsyth on , Thursday last, is progressing as well as , can be expected considering the nature of > his accident.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4574, 20 February 1893, Page 2
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