ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. [Special to Press Association.! NEW YOEK, August 9. An eigbt - story building being erected in West Broadway collapsed, and eighty workmen engaged upon it fell to the basement, eighteen being killed. The cause was the piling up of materials near the lift on each floor. A COLLISION. Seventeen men from the ship Prince Oscar have landed at Philadelphia. Their ship came into collision with a vessel unknown, and both sank. Forty in all were drowned. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 9. At an inquest at Hukeranui on Thomas Broome, gum-digger, aged seventy-six, formerly of the 58th Eegiment, and who went through the northern war, the jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, with a rider that it was a disgrace to New Zealand that an old soldier died in obscurity, being neglected and never getting any assistance from the Government for his services.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5333, 10 August 1895, Page 6
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