WHITE ISLAND FATALITY.
srr.PIIUR RETORT BURSTS. ONK MAN" KILLED. (T\t Tele£rapb.—Own Correspondent.) OPOTIKT. this day. A fli-tre.-inj accident occurred at Whin- l-land lust w<-ek resulting in the death of .lohu 11. Willia.ms, a married man. thirty-two years of age.
Williams -was employed by the White inland Sulphur Company as fireman, and was on duty on Monday. ISth, when one o; the larjre retort.- used in extracting the sulphur suddenly burst under *team pressure, and he was terribly injured. The unfortunate man wa<- scalded on his arms, hands, leirs. and face. lie khs treatetl for the burnn. but succumbed at 11 p.m. on the following , nipht. The -body was brnufrhtfrto Opotiki 1> V launch on the 2."ith. An ino,uest was opened la-t night, and aljournexl until Thursday. Williams leaves a wife and two children, who reside in I'pper Queen Street, Auckland. The remains will be brought to Auckland by steamer.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 8
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