ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5282, 12 June 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

i m A COLLIERY DISASTER. [Special to Pbebs Absooiation/1 BERLIN, June 10. A colliery near Breslau is on fire. Four hundred miners were entombed, and of this number only forty have been rescued up to the present. A WALL OF FIRE. BERLIN, Junb 11. All the colliers were saved, except fifteen, whom the rescue party f onnd to be hemmed in by a wail of fire, and reluctantly had to abandon to ( their fate. A NARROW ESCAPE.

LONDON, Junb 10. Prince Nasrullah Khan had a narrow escape from a serious accident at Birmingham to-day. On returning from the inspection of an arms factory, the cheers of the crowd startled the horses attached to the carriage of his suite, and a bolt resulted. The vehicle was smashed, but without injury to any of the occupants. Nasrullah dashed aside as the homes rushed past, and thus narrowly escaped being run over. THE POISONING CASE.

SYDNEY, Junb 11. Another aboriginal has died at Free* mount from the effects of poison supplied in mistake for rum. This makes the sixth victim.

This xnorning a man named Sydney Claude Sfc Clair, about thirty yeara of age, was found dead in bed at the house of a Chinaman in Queen Street, off Licb field Street, where he had been stopping.

>W ESCAPE.