MINE ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 10 October 1927, Page 11

MINE ACCIDENT.

!•■.:/ ~'•'.—^—•■.-' ■ •<■■-■ UNDERVIEWER INJURED. (SfECIAIi TO THE PBBSS. 4 GEEYMOUTH, October 9. A sensation was caused at Blackball to-day, when an alarm was given to theettect.that/a-ihinfevuriderviewer, Mr home at 6 a.m. yesterday morning to make the customary Sunday inspection .of the-mine workings, had. not returned to his home.' The time- usually occupied in making the' inspection is four hours, and when Mr Tennent had not. returned,at. midday his wife and family; became ansious, as to'his where; abouts. '*'•'.''"' •' ■-!• "'■■''','■'■•■ '-• ; . •Mr W. Parsonage,.mine manager, WflS( communicated 'with, and search parties were immediately organised, to look for the missing man... At . about 2 'p.m. Mr Tennent was found, com r pletely buried under a fall of coal and stone, in the old working of the No. 2 dip by two miners, W. ; McTaggar't and Hunter Ritchie. He was attended to by Dr. Ray, of Blackball, but the extent of his injuries was not known last night; Undoubtedly.. Mr Tennent owes his life to the fact that a wooden bar had fallen from the ; roof with the rest of the debris v and thus preventing <him from being crushed to death. ■'• : \ '■V \. ■