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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 9

A very distressing accident occurred aboard the wreck of the Knight of St. George at Xukualopa on February G, by which Norman Middlcton lost his life, and W. Keefe was seriously injured by the bursting of a ship's signal rocket. Middlcton died about three minutes after the explosion, and his body was brought to town, and taken to the morgue at the Government hospital, where Dr. Anderson held a post-mortem. Keefe's injuries were attended to there, and he is making a recovery. An inquest was held by Mr. Bagnall, Collector of Customs, and tho jury went down to the wreck to view the scene of tho accident. The verdict was to tho effect that deceased met his death by the discharge of a ship's rocket, but there was no evidence to show how the fatality was ca\u;ed. It is said that Middlcton had been in the British navy, and that he was well aware of the dangerous qualities of ship's rockets.