DOUBLE FATALITY.
MEN BURIED BY EARTH FALL. EFFORTS OF'RELIEF PARTIES FRUSTRATED. (By, Telegraph— Press Association.) Westport, October 2G. A big fall of earth and stone in the Woodond section of the Westport Coal Company's Denniston mine occurred Into ■ this afternoon, burying two men—Jack Muir, an old resident (a widower, with a married daughter in Sydney, and a single' daughter at Petone, Wellington), and Jim Bowers, a single man, who has taken a prominent part in local boxing. Relief parties were at once organised, but their efforts to get near the scene of the accident were frustrated by further falls of stone. The accident occurred in the old workings, from which for the past two years men have been engaged removing pillars. Miners are now at work clearing away the" fall, which is believed to cover several chains of tunnel. This is understood to be the first double fatality which has occurred in the West Company's mines.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 6
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156DOUBLE FATALITY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 6
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