COLLIERY FATALITY,

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 7

COLLIERY FATALITY,

EiNTiY TRnmrrß, KILLED. (From Our Own Conespondarti rHTSTLY, Thursday. Jatt before three o'clock this alteram; while -working at the foot of the 78? between No. 2 and No. 3 levels on 'Jejatera side of the Extended Mioe it amrtb-, Geonre Bain, a tnicker, •§«i 28, was crushed to death between t» "ikb*.* J* 8 *W i* the incline which leads ™» one level to the -bord" of face JMre the coal id being worked. Up £*°khne the empty ''skips." or small ™». oasa for wnveying the eoal, are ™H chiefly by means of the full ones * a * B *n!g. The momentum of the sfcps is controlled by a Jhiawas aUcadiaf to the descending 2*M« som» enrpties -were on their J 1 * 8 * joaraey. One of these empties, «°nga«ome «anse at present unknown. **S* detached, and, rapidly gathering JSt* the aae-in-six incline, ran a disS rf * bout 50yds- to where Bain west. work. A/nraiag shout from a feilowSgJ" "Look out. George!" failed "•* the doomed man through the SJLS* 4 * ky tfl c Jail trucks, and the empty crushed into him. He tit 1 » bis mates carried him to 1 «,* I hostom, a dsstaace of about Bt • the scene of rJw accident. S-sa?^* 1 J Me tbe ca = e was brul ?- bTL **•nrf»ePw.«i«lmnaia was nnjcklv in aeS"?*; found i'fe eitiuct. the HOT* b "% crushed intemallv. iiriJrT? 1 ' wh ° *" a MttVe ° f j^^" 1 - Mtt intended to leave New hTTfT l P re curn tc- his native home if**** was to the 7 members of the Ambalance