ACCIDENT IN A MINE
CAUGHT BY FALL OF COAL
After preparing a shot to Vie lived in one of the workings. Samuel Dunn, aged |44. married, with four children, employed as a shot-iirei by tile Glen Alton Collieries. Limited; at ih- McDonald mine, near lliintly, received a fractured arm. Mr. Dunn was hurriedly leaving the workings' when he collided with a post in out of the pillars, which commenced to creep, and a quantity of coal and fireclay gave way. falling on top of Ifim and burying
him up to the shoulders. He remained partially buried from il a.m. to 12.15 p.mV before lie was extricated by two miners who were working a little distance away.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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116ACCIDENT IN A MINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 5
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