ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2014, 1 March 1890, Page 2

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

WASHiimToir, Feb. 25. The Prescott reservoir was swollen by rain. The number of deaths known exceed 150. The damage amounts to millions of dollars. A courier reports that the town of Wickeuburgh, is safe, but forty persons have been drowned between the township and the dam.

February 27. Nearly every building in the valley below Prescott reservoir, for a distance of one hundred miles, was destroyed by the burst. Amongst the townships devastated are Wickenburg, Seymour, ,°^ er villages. The dam was one or the largest in America. The flood resembled a wall of water 40 feet high.

AVGKLA.KD, Feb. 26. Captain Somerville well known as the master of the coastal steamer lioso Casey, died last night of apoplexy, caused by sunstroke. Five persons were each fined £1 au costs at the Police Court to-day saL hanDg ° ffei ’ ed infeeted shee P fo ' r

Gisborne, Feb. 26. In the Supreme Court Walter Watson, after a long trial, was acquitted on a charge of larceny of £97. Heremi Teneti pleaded guilty to a rape, on a neice, a cripple, and was sentenced to eight years’ penal servitude. February 27. John Mitchell, a station hand, committed suicide by hanging himself at Whatatau. Wellington, Feb. 26. The police have received information from Carterton that a child aged eight years, the daughter of W. H. King, was playing in a stubble paddock which was on fire, when her clothes caught fire. bhe was dreadfully burned before assistance could arrive, and succumbed to her injuries to-day. Woodville, Feb. 26. A horrible accident happened to a lad, ten years of age, the son of Tuille, a sawmiller at Pahiatua. He was holding a horse in a paddock with a rope tied round his arm, when the horse took fright and rushed off, tearing eff the boy’s arm at the elbow. He died an hour after.