KAITANGATA MINE ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 12964, 8 November 1906, Page 4

KAITANGATA MINE ACCIDENT.

TWO MEN KILLED. MANAGING DIRECTOR’S SON A VICTIM. A fall of earth occurred in ihc main drivt of the Kaitangata mine this morning, and William Lee, a son of Mr Robert Lee (managing director of the company), and Fred Anderson were both killed. No particulars are to hand as to the disaster. It must have occurred somewhere about eleven o'clock. This, however, is known : that the mine has been dosed down since August pending the sinking of a new air shaft, and the effecting of the repairs necessary to secure the main drive. Lee was a man of twenty-two or twentythree years of age, and was mechanical en. gineev at the mine, while Anderson was an underviewer. Mm Lee lives at Queenstown. Anderson was a married man between forty and fifty years of age, and had been well known jn Kaitangata for twenty years. FURTHER DETAILS. [Special to the Star.] KAITANGATA, November 8. A sad accident occurred at the Kaitangata mine this morning, by which Wm. Leo, jun., engineer (son of Mr R. Lee, or Anderson Bay), and F. Anderson, foreman of the shift, met their deaths. They went into the mine to survey a “fall” that had taken place, and were, overpowered by foul air. The men, who were working a little outside, thinking that they wert- rather long in returning, wont in search of them, ami they, too, became overpowered, but other workmen rescued them. Dr J. Fitzgerald was in attendance, and did all he could to rave young Lee. who was rot quite dead when rescued, but all Ills efforts failed. Anderson wan dead.when found. A largo number of men and women gathered about the mine, and a gloom was cast over the town. Great sympathy is felt for the bereaved families.