FATAL ACCIDENT.
It is ■with regret /that we have to record the;toccrrrrence <of another fatal accident, happening tont three from that 4* Bottrell at She Bannockburn.,,. The name «f the deceased on this ©osa-slon was Timothy O’Leary, who for some two or three years had been living near the "Seating Meg, and: who was much respected,- as was evidenced, toy- the, large -attendance at Ms ffmneral yesterday ■afternoon. The accident (sec-Erred on Saturday, between three and font p.m. An imp est was h«M, yesterday at the "Roarmg Meg Hotel, and toy the "kindness of Ur,'Corse, the Coroner, we have "been placed in possession of the paTtsmlars as they -came «oat in evidence. CTLe-ary and a fellow workman -named Carfme were'working in JohllnV elal-ra at Brown's flat, when the, 'accident took place. They were, working Binder a face of some fourteen feet ha height, which ■ they were nwiermlnlng, in what on® of the witnesses described as an ineaqpemnced manner, to the extent of six err seven feet. "When the fall kWh place Oarllne was 'alightly a'trnek hy the earth, and <m looking ronnd conld not see O’Leary. We then went. for assistance, and ■sneeoeded in ohtem'iwg Kennedy and his i mates fiwa the next claim. - When they i came, O’Leary’s head was just visible above the earth, and no time was. lost in extrica- ■ lag him The weight cff steff which fell was ! estimated at,.some forar or five tons, A Tittle ■ wav from the face steed a large stone which 1 had been imprudently left, had against which : O’Leary was lammed toy the earth, Ms face •and breast toeing -against it when he was dls- ; covered. The deceased was then -alive. : Hr : Ooree happened to he driving past tl>* Roaring Meg at the time, and. a, messenger came ’ -across the river &r Mm He went ever and ; did what was passslMe under the -clrenm- ; -stances, -advising the removal iof O’Leary to the Hospital. 1 It : was while <cm Ms way ; thither in a cart, to svlng got a couple -of miles - km the road, that the pnTortemate man died, , The Itecter describes '-Ms injmies as toeing j mostly atoont the face and neck. There j -seems to® he -as dbntot that the Jam :&gamst ! the rock was the -cans® of death, The verdict, Teterned toy the pry was as foltewß- —■“ The jnrv -are cf opinion that the i deceased, Timothy O’Leary, was acclderstallv killed toy a fall <of earth while mining in .ToWrn’s Claim <on "Brown’s fiat, cm Beoe-mher 's,im fnm the evidence adduced, the pry -are -of lordmon that the said riaim is not pseparlj worked.."”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 265, 8 December 1874, Page 6
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