MINER KILLED.
Fall of Coal in State Mine. (Special to the “Star.”) GREYMOUTH, April 28. A fall of coal in the Liverpool State mine caused the death of Colin Sneddon, a coal-miner, aged 35, a married man, of Cobden, yesterday afternoon. Ronald Brown, a trucker, was partially buried by the fall, but was rescued by workmates and suffered only minor injuries to his legs. The two men were filling the last truck of coal for the day when part of the roof of the mine fell in. Sneddon’s neck was broken, and it took an hour of dangerous work before two other men, Charles Wright and William Toker, were able to extricate the body. Brown was removed from the heap of coal after about twenty minutes.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20291, 28 April 1934, Page 13
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126MINER KILLED. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20291, 28 April 1934, Page 13
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