ACCIDERTB TO MINERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 7

ACCIDERTB TO MINERS.

(Far United "pJ3T Amociatioa). WAIHI, April 18. T. Franklin, a miner employed at the Grand Junction mine, was seriously injured through the premature explosion of a charge of gelignite, fracturing hia left arm, necessitating amputation. A man named Fauldcr, employed at the Waibi mine, had a narrow escape. After firing the fuse of a charged hole he was knocked down by a piece of quarts falling from overhead. He managed to crawl behind a pik of dirt, thus escaping the full effect of the flying stone following the explosion.