ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6025, 11 November 1897, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

WKECKOFA LAKE STEAMER, [Per Pbess Association.! NEW YOEK, Nov. 9. The" steamer Indaho was wrecked during a storm on Lake Eyre. Kino teen persona were drowned.

AUCKLAND, Nov. 10. Lawrence Tattersall, painter, an old identity, dropped dead while papering a room in a house atParnell. DUNEDIX. Nov. 10. The body of a packer, named W. Gunn, lose in a snowstorm on May 2S, near Eoxburgh, was found yesterday on' top of Old Man Eange, not far from where his horses were found. The body was in a good state of preservation after being in snow for over five months. Afc the inquest touching the death of John Walker, Into licensee of an hotel in Dunedin, who was run over by a train, one \vitness gave it as his opinion thai, the deceased had deliberately thrown himself in front of a wheel of a carriage. From the evidence of deceased's housekeeper, ifc appeared, however, that he was subject to attacks of giddiness.. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. It is believed that he had a watch and chain valued at .£SO and a .£5 note in his possession, but tlieso have not been found. AValkcr was in comfortable circumstances, and no reason Avas shown why he should attempt suicide. ;

On Saturday, as tlio Amuri County Council gang were crossing the Clarence Eiver, the shaft horse in the dray containing the men's swags and tents tripped- and fell. The horse was drowned and all the goods were lost, which will be :i considerable loss to the men.