FALL OF COAL.
TWO MINERS KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Last Night. A double mining fatality occurred iii the Linton coal mine, at Ohai, shortly after 11 o’clock this morning, when two experienced miners, Peter Johnstone, aged 50, a married man with ten children (one of whom is married), .and Thomas Thomsen, aged about 38, a married man with one child, lost their lives •through a heavy fall of coal. The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but it was evident that both were killed instantly.
An inspector of the Mines Department, Mr. J. Hughes, had a few minutes before the fall passed through the working.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 March 1937, Page 5
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