CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13876, 29 October 1910, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

{l-Rl-SS ASSOCIATION TKt.EGRAU.) WESTPORT, October 20. A big Call, of earth and stono in the ■Woodend section of the Westport Coal .Company's Denniston mine occurred lato this afternoon, burying two men —Jack Muir, an old resident, .*. widower with a married daughter in Sydney and a single daughter at Petone, and Jim Bowers, a single man, who has taken a prominent part in local hexing. Relief parties were at onco organised, but their efforts to getnear to the scene of the accident wore frustrated by further falls of stone. The accident occurred in the old workings, from which for the past two years men havo been engaged removing the pillars. .Miners are now at work clearing away the fall, wliich is believed tr> cover several chains of the tunnel. This is understood to he the first double fatality that has occurred in the Westport Company's mi net..