Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 22, 20 August 1891, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities

Inspector Thompson received a telegram yesterday from Constable Gilhspie., of Foxton, stating, that Mr James Ingly, of Shannon, had found, .on the railway line the mangled remains of . a man who had evidently been run over by a train. The place where the' body was found is situated about a* mile 5 on the Palmerston side \>t Shannon. Inspector Thomson despatched Coustable O'Rorke to Shannon to -help Constable Gillespiein obtaining particulars of the terrible affair. .The Victim of the unfortuuate occurrence is a labouring-man named Macarthy, who resides at Makaroa, a flag station, the other Bide of Shannon He came down by the train from. Palmerston on Monday night, and got out at Shannon, presumably with the intention of /walking back to his home. Instead, of returning home, however, it is stated that he. spent some time iu«an hotel, and when he did start he came to- ' -wards Wellington instead >of going back tip the line.' This was the last time the unfortunate man was 'seen alive. His *coat and boots were found some distance «awaj from the remains. — N. Z. Times. (PKR UNITED PRKSS -ASSOCIATION.) . . i "Rom*, August 18. Two aeronauts named liouis Plerom land Maceiata were blown to sea in the Adriatic,* aiid drowned." ' Poet Ac Pkjnce, August 18. During a flfiod," a bridge, on which a .number of people were crowded, was sud denly v swept *way, and eighty were , tlrowned. Foochow. August 18. Serious floods .have been, experienced here, and 1000 acres of land sown with rice is submurged. -Numerous houses have been washed away, and the loss of life is serious, eighty bodies having already been recovered. -The loss of stock has also beeu great. • - London, August 18. 'By' a railway collision at Pontypridd; in Wales, marij persons were .injured, thirty of whom are not expected to re* wcbver. Vienna, August .19. , Br the bursting of a rain* cloud, half of of Kallman, Tyrol, was destroyed, and many persons drowned. -_ -, > Later. : Forty people "in all were drowned in ' theiKollmari disaster, • Paws, August 19. "* Twenty, people who went mad with bright during the collision at St. Maude, have been' declared incurable. Stdney,, August 19. r News from Noumea reports the' total •destruction by fire of the barque Nautilus, l>ound from Sydney. She was' lying at in Noumea, when the cargo was •discovered on. fire. , The crew of the German warships Saone and Thetis endeavoured to stop the progress of the flames, and worked' for 36 hours continuously, but -'--without avail: ' Finally the ' vessel, was Scuttled and ran en the beach. Two of * tHe crew and',one -native were snffoeated before they could , he rescued- Another -seaman was severely burnt. , The wreek ' -and eargo^was "sold for 19,000 francs, "The vessel is believed to be insured in * -the South British for £1000. " " Thames, Augast 19. A terrible accident happened jester day at the Cassell Company's' reduction *rork3 at Karangahake. The foreman of t\ie\ works, James Tegart, "was leaning - *>ver a cylinder containing a ve<y strong solution of- cyanide of -potassium, when he overbalnaced and ' fell " in. He was <qaicklr removed, , but died immediately.