BURIED BY COAL.
YOUNG MINER INJURED.
COXDITIOX IS CRITICAL
(From Our Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, this day
Buried by a fall of coal at the Renown mine. Huntly. to-day. Thomas McEwen, a single man. aged 23. suffered concussion, internal injuries and an injury to the neck.
At the time he was working in a pillar beside his step-father. Mr. W. Donaldson. There were several men in the same section and they extricated him swiftly. Meanwhile, "both ambulance and doctor had been summoned and they were waiting at the pit-head when Mr. McEwen was carried out.
He was taken to the Waikato Hospital, where his condition is reported to be critical.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 156, 3 July 1940, Page 8
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