ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 18

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MINER BURIED UNDER COAL. A fatalitv occurred at 3* p.m. yesterday in the 'Morgan section of the Liverpool State Colliery, Greymouth, a fall of coal burying Colin Snedden, a miner, aged thirty-four, of Cobden. The deceased was a married man with four, children. Snedden, with a mate, Harry Harwell,, was. filling the last truck before knocking off when the roof, consisting of soft coal, came away, covering the deceased and a trucker named ' Ronald Morrison, of Dunollie, who, however, wa« not so near the face and soon extricated himself. Snedden’s body was extricated quickly by fellow-work-, ors, but life was extinct, his neck having been fractured. ■* FATAL FALL OVER CLIFF. Whilst mustering sheep oh. Glen Lyon. Station (near Timaru)owned by Mr J. W. Preston, Mackenzie County, Erie • Clark, a single man," aged forty, fell over a 500 ft cliff and was killed. BODY IN SCRUB. The decomposed Body of a man was found in the scrub near the coast-at Seafield on Good Friday, and is now; identified as that of William Hall (67), of Fairlie., He had been dead two at three weeks when found! A pea rifle was lying across his legs and apparently he was shot the mouth.—Ashburton Association message. STRUCK BY VAN. As the result of a collision between a motor van and a bicycle on the Hutt road at about 5.30 this morning, W. TV Cotton, well known in . business and sporting circles in Hutt Valley, and for many years a borough councillor of Lower Hutt, received injuries from which he died in hospital. His bicycle was strudk from behind by the Hutt. Meat Coinpany’s van, driven by James Sheridan. Cotton received a severe scalp wound and concussion, and died two hours later.—Wellington Association message.