MINE FATALITY
CRUSHED BY FALL OF EARTH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, May 21
A young man, James Williamson, aged 29, was killed on Saturday afternoon at Upper Nevis when a fall of earth crushed him against the iron casting of the elevator shaft of his private mining claim.
There were no eye-witnesses to the accident, the body being found by a man employed by Mr. Williamson when he returned to the elevator shaft after working on another part of the claim. Mr. Williamson received a broken neck and a fractured skull, death being instantaneous.
At an inquest held this morning a verdict of accidental death was returned.
Mr. Williamson was a single man and resided with his widowed mother near the claim.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19390522.2.27
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 5
Word Count
122MINE FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in