MAN ELECTROCUTED IN MINE
FALL OF COAL HURTS ANOTHER. ACCIDENTS ON WEST COAST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Last Night. Charles Stoop, aged 19, was electrocuted at Callaghan’s gold sluicing claim, near Kumara, at 3.30 p.m. to-day when hitching up a truck on an underground incline. A power line fouled the truck, killing him instantly, He was relieving another man and was taking out the last load of the shift. Other workmen including the father of the dead man found him when entering tire mine. A fall of coal in the Kimbell No. 2 section of the Liverpool State Collieries buried up to his neck a miner, Alexander Williams, aged 39, Runanga, married, at 3.27 p.m. A. McLean, his mate, escaped. Twenty men rescued Williams at 4.15 p.m., and he was taken to hospital with severe injuries to the left arm and shoulder and abrasions. His condition is serious.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1933, Page 7
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