TWO MINERS DROWNED
CROSSING THE MOLYNEUX RIVER ROPE OF CHAIR BREAKS ;By Telegraph—Proas Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. Precipitated 69 feet into the Molyneux river when the rope of a chair in 'Which ' they were crossing broke,' two miners, Trevor Gilbert and Thomas King, each 25 years of age and both of Timaru, were drowned yesterday. A third man, Ernest Nixon, was rescued and is now in Clyde Hospital with leg injury. The party had been working on the miners’ subsidy near Clyde. Recently they began using a private chair owned by an orchardist and unused for six years. The owner had padlocked the chair, but the pin was removed and the chair put in use to evade a three-mile walk round to the opposite bank. The chair" was directly over the gorge when the crash occurred. Nixon retained his grip on the rope and was hauled out after 15 minutes in the icy cold water.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 4
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