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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1923, Page 8

Further particulars regarding tne ; accident experienced by a mining emi- j tractor, J. C’olledge, and his son in | the shrinkage stope at No. 9 level of | the Grand Junction mine at Waihi , show that at the cessation of the run of ore both men were covered by the j material from two to three feet over , their heads. A trucker in the level below, hearing tlie noise of tlie “run. proceeded at once to the stope, and located the buried men by their muffled calls. lhe fact that in the “run” there were large boulders enabled the men to breathe, and the others to locate them. Had the mater- j ial been finer there would have uee)i ■ no ventilation, and the men would have been suffocated (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The process of uncovering and extricating them frdm tiicir perilous position occupied about ; tin lioiir and a half. Both suffered i abrasions and cuts on (lit; face ami i tic body, but, fortiuiately, with the exception, of a nasty laceration to tlie < nose of Air. Colledge, and to one leg, (Iu in juries were not very serious.