COLLIERY FATALITY
TWO MEN OVERCOME BY BLACK DAMP. PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, November 8. An accident occurred at the Kaitangata coal mine to-day by which William Deo, onginecc, a son of the managing director, aged twenty-four years, and Frederick Olive Anderson, aged forty-six, deputy-manager, lost their livee. Work was going on in the main drive to block off a firo that had broken out. Loo and Anderson wont down to see if they could locate tJw fire. They entered the return airway with searchlights, and were overcome with black damp. The manager, on finding out what they had done, at once took steps to search for them. Andorran was found some 39 feet away from the door, and a second party found Leo 200 feet away. Efforts wero made to resuscitate them, but without avail. The miners worked heroically in getting out the bodies, and several were overcome hy black damp. Anderson was married, and had a grown-up son.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6052, 9 November 1906, Page 8
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