ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5519, 20 March 1896, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THREE MEN DROWNED. [Per Press Association.] PERTH, March 20. By the flooding of a shaft at the New Chum mine, Mount Magnet, three men' Campbell, Cook and Daniels were drowned. Owing to heavy rain the water came down the gully like a wave, and entered the shaft without any warning. Yesterday afternoon a son of Mr E. Harris, whilst exercising on the horizontal bar at St filbans School, fell and broke his right collar-bone. He was taken home and attended to. A telegram was received by Inspector Broham, this morning, from Ashburton, stating that a man named Harry Greenaway was f ound dead in about six inches of water, tinder a culvert, near Tinwald, about five o'clock yesterday evening. At Rangiora this morning a three-horse team, with empty dray, belonging to Mr M. Macfarlane, bolted from the goods shed at the Eailway Station, the cause' of the horses taking fright being some sheep and dogs rushing between their legs. The dray came into collision with Mr W. A. Burt's office on his coal site at the station, the sudden cheek bringing the horses down in a heap, with the result that a shaft penetrated deeply into the side of one of the leaders. The horses regained their feet and made off again through the station yard to High Street, where Mr M. Melbourne siezed the leaders and stopped them, but the traces giving way the shafter continued on its. course, with the dray, from which it freed '-itself near the Cam mill. The injured horse, one of Mr Macfarlane's prize mares, valued at fully died very quickly after being stopped. Mr Burt's office was considerably wrecked and the dray was also damaged.