TWO MEN KILLED

Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 5

TWO MEN KILLED

at the glex road quarry • drawixoTcuaruk. There was a s-td accident this mcrovis ,u the Ulon Road Quirry, Caversiiam. A trai-tini; charge which misfired yteterday exjladed wlm it f.is being drawn, and William Raynham bad his head smashed to pieces by a fragment dislodged, while William Dick w::s crushed under a. be»vy i:.ai.s rf debris and so torkmsly injured that ft© died in the hospital "at noon, tlayr.ham, who lived iii Melbourne street, -'iiuth Duucdin. wa? a married man with ;onr children; Dick wis about twfnty icars of age, tr:ia unmarried, and lived at .'ai.iymotint. Tho facts appear to 1,-e the»e: —About I 30 y*st«day afternoon a chrerfre was put into the face, but failed to ignite. _ Tiiis morning the wail method* were being employed to "draw'' also charge. This is <;ouo by meana of a sort of drill. It would seem that H. Kir.c (foreman) and .lamas Finncrty w-re working over tho charge with the drill, which was not within oft of tho powder. There was an cxp'-o- . lon, and both men wore thrown into tho air, but fell practically uuinjuiod. Down l-eiow the face | which "is cna of about 9ft) the two victims of the accident wens workin;! loading a cart. Immense masses of ilav were dis'odced. Raynhara <:t" tbo back of tka head and killed iu.s:antly. the ;op of tho skrdl being smashed to- Dick was buried to the shoulders under a weight of more than a ton, and it was both?" few mimr.es before the frantic exertions of his comrades could < xtricat-> him. Dr Gordon >t-.<.donald arrived quickly, ar.d under his directions Dick was token to the hospital, and Raynhams remains v e:o taken to the morpio. Dr Macdonald's first examination of tho former :h--.wod that he 'c:i/> badly crushed about the Vtdorce.-i. hut iho-.e were no broken limbs. Th<- ijuiirry is known as Fox's Quarry, a-d ison th-V.'-i'-l: road, j'ist :n the town of Sie'ev'- bri'j'. Mr Fox lof Caver•limn'. h.'--\-. '.■:'■!--' of it. .:nd Mr Allan Johnston was v. oikiu? it on a royalty system. Mr .Tohr.-:-x> h::r-s-~'f v.-:;s approai kirur the « -ne of ;:;■ ' ■.•::. in •>> !:•"- ". occurred, uud liiri hj in- in''. s;,i,en:t-n! of the facts: ' Tnc ciiar-.-s- m.:.-. put in :U 2.30 p.m. ,-esierdav. " T ie- '-',-;■;>- lit, and I took rite time, and :t c.i.t..- to ten minute.-?. I •-aid t" mv foivuc.ui "'that iu a rnisir-rirc..' It wins r.'iniiu at -hv t'-n>\ and I left. ( cane back about 3.30 tl::.« morning. s.w iiie men withdraw!-.- the charge, .spoko ',. thorn, a-u! jm.--s.vl <::. ;■:-,.,.1chu: t.» men < ..rkins futthyr ;:'e.-ii'_- \r. li>- qurjny. I re. runiin; hick. ami w;:s about a chain vvray from the far.-, when I fw tho exo .-"on. Tho men on the •jumper' vrero : ..->orl into tho air. 1 v -lr up. and saw h.-- mail Dick j--n:m. d. Vr'o cm, to work, ,n i eot him out in ah.ai-. •.■•velvo mirmres. . II the time hj" W3- e.i Hi-- our about hi» !. r ll . At the time I vlid r,>.t know of ':; • other man boinz <.in:ek." \"b.\< "drawi,_! ■■. •■ ';. i:;' " ' ; ipiite com- ■<-.<■■:'. in bla--f .te ope—:ions. Ir is .-mm that lie drill ' as imi'ivar til- i-ni.Vi. so that •! e ca .-e of id-,- t-xplos.on (-.in only ho ~r inr|urt< f •>it the- !'»•!;.- of Raynliam '•!j b-: oper.«d j-,.orn;n! at the vorrruc.