ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 77, 29 July 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

London, July 27. A crowded excursion train; entering Sterocbs, Glasgow, at too fast a flp~ed, crashed buffers at the end of the p'atform. The two leading carriages were telescope.', killing thirteen pas* win were terribly mutilated. Mauy others were it.jur d. St. Petersbueg, July 27. ■

Thirty three peasant girls sleeping in a barn at Sh-llaiyka lost their lives the building taking fire. Perth, July 28. The Melanesian Mission y"icht Southern Cress arrived at Albany on Saturday, She coaled and left for Adelaide on Sunday. In the Red Sea _the chief steward, Lambert, committed 'sucide by takng pru«sic acid. Auckland, Ju'y 28. At Otui, Wairoa South, Charles, ths 11-year-old con of J. Murtagh, was shot deed whilst he and his brother were pigeon thootiug. A cartridge missed fire, and unfortunately ic was not take n out of the gun, but striking the gun on the ground cause! it to explode. Oh tries n.d the back of his »»fid blown (fl. At the inqust a verdict of iiecidtntal death was returned.

Dckkdis, July 28. The body of a newly-born female child wt-s discovered io a right-of-way off High-stiett yesterday evening. A womm lesidtng in the neighbourhood cille.i a constable's attention to a tuipicitu -looking biown psper parcel which had been 1. ft in the locality, and t l e en extmniug if, found the body, which he removed to the police bt*tion.