MANY FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1929, Page 6

MANY FATALITIES

ENGLISH SENSATION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 26. Reports show that there has been an unusually long list of Christmas tragedies, with more than thirty deaths, mostly due to motoring siinis'u-'. A smrtli::;-; accident occurred at H ive, when twelve were injured through ilia collapse of scaffolding at a church o. a football gro.'-id M uty people climbed on this scaffolding to get a view of a match and the scaffold gave way, precipitating the spectators forty loot, amidst the crashing timber and masonry. SEVENTEEN INJURED. ON AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS. SYDNEY, Dec. 27. The Melbourno-Adolaide express mot with ail accident this m.orinng near Callingtou. One passenger coach left the rads at a soft spot, and a mail van next to the engine was seriously damaged Sixteen .passengers were injured, none seriously. The late heavy rain apparently caused the permanent way to sink under the weight of the train. MELBOURNE, Dec. 27. The express was derailed fiinen mill’s on the Adelaide side id the Murray bridge, owing to storm water from a small creek washing out the filling under the line, so that when the engine crossed the spot the rails subsided One carriage overturned, and two others went off tile metals. To-day’s express from Melbourne a ill he despatched as usual, the passengers transferring at the break d the line is not restored'by the morwuig. POVERTY BAA 7 FATALITY - . GISBORNE, Dec. 27. While riding across Waiapu at the ford known as Kerr’s Crossing, near Ruatoria. on December 23, a Vaon named Pia Peliei, twenty-two years of age, was drowned. The body was

recovered at Port Awanui on ChriiVmas Day. On Christmas Eve, a car driven by Isaac Joseph Anderson, accompanied by his son and a friend- went ove a bank on Wharerata Road between Napier and Gisborne falling be;.aeon twenty and thirty foot. Anderson iva« admitted to the hospital, but !. s injuries are believed to 'be not serous.