MINE WORKER'S DEATH.
COMMENT BY • CORONER. - (By Telegraph.—3*ress iisgoctatlon:)".. GREYMOUTH, Friday. • An inquest was held this morning concerning the death of Samuel ' Glasson, who was killed in the Blackball - mine bins on Tuesday, when lie was crushed between the railway tracks and the-prop supporting the bins'. verdict ." was! that death resulted from shock caused;by?' 'the'injuries. The coroner, Mr. W. Meldrum, S.M?., added that the evidence-showed. that f tlie, closeness o£; c thp : 'props- to -the lines was| a source of,;"danger / to' the men Who: stopped the Iriifks at thfe bins, and that,' the brake bn the wagon which caused the accident was defective.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 10
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