Fatal Accident at Dunedin
fn* vhitbd ritsas asbociatiox.) DcNBDtH May 17. A fatal accident occurred this afterneon. The unemployed working in Downing street hare been firing lasts within tho la«t few days. Jrot before 6 o'clock a blast w*s let off, and, either through too much powder being une.i, or not sufficient binding, or probably both, the stones, some of them of rery large sise, were hurled some distance away. Some fell in Princess street, usually crowded at that time, and an expressman is said to hare bis thigh fractured. A numbrr fell on the roofs of shops in Princess street, and one large one, which came cmbing thromsk the r«of of the London photographic vaoms, crushed and instantly killed Mrs Finch, ■lister of the wife el the proprietor, Mrs Irvine. Mrs Irvine herself, who was sitting working at the same table, had her skull fractured, and her recovery is doubtful. Two other ladies sitting in the room received slight injuries.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 145, 18 May 1886, Page 2
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