A CCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
• [BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland. 22nd July. A man named George Griffiths "was drowned at Smythe's Bush, near Tokatea, through the bursting of a dam. The body has not yet been recovered. A skeleton found on a mud flat at Whakatu, 25 miles distant from Aratapu, has been identified as the remains of Walter Samuel Mead, who, with his wife, was drowned last October in the Northern Wairoa River. The body of the wife was recovered at the time of the accident. This' Day. Particulars of the death of Griffiths show that he met a horrible fate by the bursting of a dam in a creek at Kennedy's Bay. Deceased was repairing a leak with sandbags, when an ominous cracking sound was heard, and without further warning the structure gave -way with a thundering crash. The body of Griffiths was found on the bank of the creek, half-a-mile below the dam, naked, every limb being fractured, and the faceand body horribly mutilated. He leaves a wife and a young family.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1897, Page 6
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174ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1897, Page 6
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