ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11167, 30 January 1904, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A Bishop Drowned.

Press Association.— Telegniph.^-CopyrigM Received January 30; 9.7 a.m. ; LONDON, January 2?: The Bishop of Nassau was accidentally drowned at the Bahamas. '

A Dreadful Motor-oar Aooldsuit*

Received January 30, 9.7 a.m.PARIS, January 29./ An English motor : car 'at Canttes icpl- . lided, and the three occupants were thrown twenty yards. Mrs Rathborn, an American," was killed, . and another lady's /*riD, leg and collarbone were broken. Thrge men were badly injured. ' %

' ' ■ -' i. '. (Per United Press Association.) - • DUNEDIN, January 29. The tug Plucky, with members ,of -the Otago Harbour Board and visitors-/ went down to the Heads .this afternoon to inspejet the works and witness a big blast. ' The blast consisted of 8001bs.of gun powder in a drive of 40 feet long. The blast blew out, sending a shower of stones along .the/jfttty. F. A. Joseph, reporter for the Otago Daily Times, was hit on the head and killed instantaneously. Mr E. G. Allen, M;H.R., was wounded in the ankle, -but. not seriously. Patrick Ryan wag struck with a stone " and had his arm broken. '.• BLUFF, January ss. ' As the school excursion train was returning from the Bluff to Riverßdale this evening a passenger named McCarthy fell therefrom at Big Pond, about a- mile from Bluff, and when found by the railway officials sent to the scene of the accident to investigate was floating face* downwards in. the -. pond, quite dead. The deceased had sustained severe injuries about the head -in falling. ' - . WALROA, January 29. The Tangaroa arrived in. the hay,/bn,l} , was unable to enter the river. Four' loads ,' of passengers were safely landed in the oil launch Hateremai. When leaving th©. shore. 1 again the launch capsized on top of tlie crew. John Anderson had his ribs broken, T. Clouston his thigh dislocated, and, A. Simmonds an injury to his back. All we^e taken to the hospital. . . . • . *