RIVER TRAGEDY.
TWO MINERS DROWNED
ROPE OF CHAIR GIVES WAY. THIRD MAN RESCUED. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Precipitated from a height of GOft into the Molyneux River when the rope of a chair in which they were crossing broke, two miners were drowned yesterday, and a third, was rescued. Those concerned in tlio tragedy were: Trevor Gilbert, aged 25 years, of Tiniaru, drowned. Thomas King, aged 25 years, of TimarUj drowned. Ernest Nixon, rescued, now in Clyde Hospital, with injury to a leg. The party had been working under the miners' subsidy scheme near Clyde. They began to use a private chair which was owned by an orehardist, and which had been unused for six years. The owner had padlocked the chair, but yesterday the pin was removed and the chair put into use to evade a threemile walk round to the opposite bank. The chair was directly over the gorge when the crash occurred. Niton retained his grip on the rope, and was hauled out after having been for 15 minutes in the ice-cold water, i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 196, 21 August 1933, Page 9
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