ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FEE PHESB ASSOCIATION.
London, August 2. Ten thousand spectators were watching a cricket match between Perthshire and Forfarshire at Perth, when a stand collapsed, throwing - 500 people to the ground, some thirty feet. One was killed and 50 removed to an infirmary. About 100 others reoeived ltssseriouv, it jmies.
Gbbyhottth, August 3,
A fatal accident occurred in the Cobden quarry th s morning, A workman named D. McK>nzie, aged 28, was prizing a stone abcut 6 feet from the bottom, when the stone gave way moraeasily than be expected end carried him 11 >ng for a few feet. He slipped and his f<. ot got caught betweeu a couple of rocks severing half of the foot. In the fall he sustained internal injuries. He was taken to the hospital, but died a few minutes after admission.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 182, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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139ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 182, 4 August 1903, Page 2
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