A MAN BLOWN TO PIECES.
A terrible accident (eays the Lillydale correspondent of tho Melbourne Age, writing on the 11th inst.) was reported from Hoalesville this morning. Yesterday a man named Rusneil, employed on the Watts River extension of the waterworks, was working in a shaft Rome 60 feet in depth. Having put in a charge for blasting, he gave the order to the man in charge on the surface to pull up. After being hauled about 20 feet up the shaft he gave the order to lower. The whim was reversed, and the bucket lowered, the man in charge shouting down tho shaft to know if all was right. He received no answer, and suddenly the blast exploded. Another man then went down, aud found liußsell literally blown to pieces. The bucket, it eeems, did not reach the bottom in descending, and it is surmised that Rugsell either fell out of the bucket, or he had not got into it when be gave the order to pull up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8035, 24 August 1887, Page 5
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