A Chapter of Accidents.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 3, 17 January 1912, Page 5

A Chapter of Accidents.

A remarkable list of casualties l.fe, been provided during the week by th*, mining township of Thames On Saturday night on the outskirts of tho borough. Walter Miller, and a Maori woman Piri Hire, were caught by a train by Kauacranga bridge and killed. It was only when the train pulled up at Gra-hamst-own that the engine driver dis covered from a cap and blood on the engine that there had been an accident, and exactly how the couple met their death will never be ascertained. On the Sunday morning a cadet on the Wakatere lying at Thames wharf pointed a revolver jokingly at another cadet, not knowing that- it was loaded. A bullet penetrated the brain of the latter boy, and the chances of him recovering are remote. Then on Thursday an inrush of poisonous gases in No. 6 level at the May Queen Mine resulted in. the death of James Williams and Thomas Guy. and the narrow escape of six others employed on the shift. The small Wellington-Greymouth trading steamer Jane Douglas, which was built at Dunedin as far back as 1875, was wrecked close to D’Urville Island about midnight on Tuesday. The captain had a narrow escape, but there were no casualties.