ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FATALITY AT MANUNUI. COMRADE SAVED BY VICTIM. (Per Press Association.) Taumarunui, January 7. The young man Grant, who was killed while working on Messrs Ellis and Burnand’s tramline at Manunui on Monday afternoon, met his death by being crushed under a large block of pumice, which fell iq>on him from a bank. Shortly before 4 o’clock, which was knocking-off time, a gang of men were laying a stringer on a portion of the tramline, while others w-ere picking at the bottom of a pumice bank with the object of getting some stuff down. Suddenly a block of pumice some 10ft wide and 18in thick dislodged itself and came down on them. Grant appeared to notice the danger, for he pushed a mate named Webster out of the way. However, before he could save himself, the falling mass struck him and knocked him against the stringer, burying him completely. His mates at once got to work with picks and shovels, and his body was uncovered in two or three minutes, but life was extinct. He had been killed instantaneously. Th’e body was brought to Taumarunui on the 8.15 train, and taken to the morgue, where a post-mortem examination was held. An inquest is being arranged for. Grant was 18 years of age, single, and it is believed that his only relative in the Dominion is a brother Jiving in Auckland, His mother lives at Aberdeen.