Accidents and Fatalities.
— : . • [Special to Prbss Association.! RAILWAY ACCIDENT. NEW YORK, June 13. The brake on a train to Chicago snapped, ciusing the cars to be thrown off tho rails. Five persons were killed and twenty injured. FATAL FIRE. A fire broke out in a tailors' workshop in New York. Three hundred persons were working in the building, and seeing no other means of escape, many of them jumped from the windows and were killed. •■• THE FURY OF A GALE. SYDNEY/JUNE 14. During the heavy easterly gale which has been ragiug on the coast for some days past tho brigantine Saucy Jack was seen to be making for the beach near Coif's Harbour, under full sail. The vessel waß boarded after she came ashore, and it was found that there was nobody on board. Jt is believed, that the whole of the crew were washed overboard by a heavy sea. The vessel was bound from Newcastle to Townßville, with a cargo of coal and general merchandise. Bhe was under the command of Captain Anderson, who had with him a man named Thompson as mate, and the following crew : — Tulloch, Holmes, Anderson, Brown and Hughes. The vessel is apparently broken in half.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4671, 15 June 1893, Page 1
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