ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1887, 4 May 1889, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oitcwa, April 30. Tlie train, which met with the accident at Hamilton, was carrying 150 excursionists to witness the centennial celebration at New York. It was thrown off the rails by some mishap to a switch, and smashed into a water tank canaige containing 35 passeugera, most of whom were asleep, ltwas hurled on the top of the engine and cnught fire from the furnace of the latter. Entangled in the wreckage many of the unfortunate people were unable to escape, and twenty ware burned to death. The flames spread and destroyed the whole train. There was no water, and tho heat was so groat that all attempta at rescue were uuelefß. London, April 30. News has been received that the Pacific Hteam Navigation Company's a.s. Cotopnxi 1467 tons, of Liverpool, collided with the Gwrman steamer Olympic, 1G55 tons, in the Straits of Magellan. Thy Cotopuxi ! was sunk, but fur timely tho crt-rr ami puHSewecsrs weus a ; l sav.a. ?.;'.,„ < A -\y ■-■ A shocking trsgedy occurred at 13rdaI tree, in Essex. During a quarrel between I a father and iiia eon, the latter murdered

the former with a farming implement hud then committed suicide. Brisbane, Moy 2. A teams'er named Bell, who Ihib surrendered himself to the police, has confessed to the murder of a man named Siderei, at Amoria Creek. Hia accomplice, a man named Scott, has n\m been arrested. Waipawa, Ma*? l, John Murphy, once a member of lire Blenheim police force, and latterly barman at Scrimgeout'a Hotel, was killed on the railway last night. It is believed to be a case of suicide, and that deceased laid his head on the rail in front of nn approaching train. He had been drinking. Marton, May 1. A fatal accident has occurred at the llane-ilikei river, seven miles from here. A Maori woman was driving a pair of horses in a waggon, when the horses jibbed and backid over a clitf. The woman received injuries from wbich Hbe died in an hour. A child which was also in the waggon eecaped uninjured. DrjNKMN, May 1. A fißherman named Nicholas was drowned iu the lower harbour. Three boats were being towed up by a steamer when the one in which Nicholas and others were seated was swamped. The other boats e»st off ar:d went to the rescue but Nichols w»h not seen again. Chiusxcbtjrch, May 1. G. Jackson, the jockey, whose horse, Count d'Orsay, fan with him when running in ihe New Brighton Cup on Apiil 30, died in the Hospital at half-post seven yesterday evening.