ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13679, 13 May 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MINER’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 12. The inquiry into the circumstances sur--1 rounding the death of Bimo;i \\ calkcra'l, a miner, who was injured in Craig's coalmine at Roxburgh, on the 3rd inst., amt who died j:i rile hospital on the (i;h as a r- suit of the injuries, was resumed yesterday, before Air. Graham, Coroner. Alter reviewing the evidence, the Coroner said tnut the injuries had been received by dec'iised's head coming in contact with I he root’ of the tunnel. He would record a v u'dict that death was due to asphyxia c.aised by dislocation of Die spine received while riding on a true!; in the mine; and he added, “eoalrary to Gove; ament regulations.'’ It was a ease of the old saving repeat ing it-a. If, “that accidents would occur. KILLED BY A CHAFF-CUTTER. (11SBDP.NAlay 12. A man mimed Thornhill Nicholas was driving a chafT-eutter at Manutukc on Friday night when the horse shied, and Nicholas, in some manner, got under the machine. He was bimug’ii to the Gislierne hospital, where he (lied early this morning.