THE QUARRY FATALITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14659, 29 January 1912, Page 7

THE QUARRY FATALITY.

INQUEST RESTttiED. Tho inquest touching iho deatli Patrick O'Neill, who 'vnfc killed at tho Quarry accident "was resumed on Satur wiy, before tho Coroner,, Mr V. G. Day. Mr Kinnerney ie. rcsoated tho Harbour Boards Mr Moore deceased's relatives, Mr -Daly, the Gun oral Labourers 1 "Onion, and sergeant Bowman the police. Lenton Herald, a schoolboy, thirteen years of ago, said he -v.is at tho drive ten minutes before the eiplosion. Deoeabed took a sack ofl the fuse, and took down a tin marked '* gunpowder No. 66" from a rock near by. jlo opened the tin, and witness wo at about thirty yards away. Witness /?□?«' no more of doceaaed -until tho t-xplosion, and then he saw him running away as though tiying to get clear. Witness Was then 5.00 yarcte away. To Sergeant Bowman: There were two fiues, both about six inches out of tie ground. Calvert was twelve yards away just before the explcsion, talking to Mr Clarke. D 0. Turnbull, chairman of the Harbour Board, said ho was at the quarry on the day of the ezrplosion in company with Mr Kolleston. They went up at 2.15 to look at FyiV's Quarry on the opposite side of the road, and from there to the Harbour Board's quarry. Mr Calvert told Witness that a shot would be fired betwoen 3.30 and 4 p.m., _ and lie said be might get back to >-ce it. but not to delay the shot on Ma «ccounfc. Witness went back to town And telephoned to Mr Rolleston that i"he bhot was to be fired. Mr Rolloston said he would lw free to go up after 3 15, and a few minutes after that time, the two of them left in a motor kit, arriving at the quarry between 3.30 and 3.45. Everything was ready when tliey ai rived, and Mr Calvert suggested a cerrtain mound to see the shot from. They had not been more than three minutes on the mound when tho oxplosion took place. Witness made no requcfet whatever that 'he firing of the shot should be expedited for hia benefit, nor did Mr llollcston Mr Kinnerney quoted a clipping regarding tho accident from tho "Otngo Daily Times" which —"HnvesV, evidence showed that- O'NojU, in order not to keen the membc'ns of the Harbour Board waiting long to boo the blast, disregarded _ the u'sual precaiitjonß.*' Mr Kinnerney asked if there really was any evidence to this effect. The Coroner said there \yas not, but the statement contained an inference drawn by the paper's acent. The inquest wni3 further adjourned Until next Saturday at 10.30' a.m.. only the evidence cf tho Board's engineer, Mr. F, "W. Clarke, having to bo taken.