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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2006, 15 February 1907, Page 1

.11 is operations became inter-to-ticnnl, and during a European tour iio was married in Florence and in Genoa (whom an angry fatlior’s sfci lotto camo near ending liis career). Hack again in Ne.v York ho was married as “Dr. Iloder,” “Dr. Betid',” being his name when ho married a St. JiOni.-i cook. Matrimonial agencies in Chicago introduced him to “several young ladies,” from whom lie. got various sums, and as “Dr. T. S. McClough,” ho wedded a sehcclmastor’s dal filter, getting rid of her in Detroit by a bogus telegram that told her to “come home at once. Dada is ill.” .So the tale of this callous rogue goes on. He marries in eity halls, in churches, ant synagogues. Generally lie is a doctor of medicine, but sometimes ho is an experimenter in Mr. Edison’s laboratory. Sometimes a former wife recognises him, and hurried flight becomes necessary, but as a rule lie leiies on Ihe wide distances of the great American contin<nt, and goes in all confidence to a now city to establish a.surgery aivl marry a new wife.

MILLBURN QUARRY ACCIDENT. KILLED BY A FALL OF STONE. As far as can be gathered, the fatal accident at Millburn lime and coment quarry on Saturday, whereby two men were killed and three injured, was the result of the premature explosion which took place while some workmen in the employ of Messrs Henderson and Gray, contractors to the company, were making preparations for blasting down limestone rock high u p on the face of the quarry adjoining the kilns. The drill hole for the charge was finished on Friday, and was tamped the same night and a quantity of dynamite was placed in the drill, to give explosive force to the blast. On Saturday morning Charles Taylor (foreman) and Patrick Cassorley proceeded to the drill hole to put in a shot consisting of rackarock, detonator, and fuse. Before the detonator and fuse had been put in the explosion took place, and the two men were thrown violently to one side, Casserley sustaining injuries to his hands, face and neck, winch necessitated his removal to the Dunedin Hospital. Ta3 r lor also sustained some injuries to his hands, and a workman named Henry Piorce received some bruises. The most deplorable results of the explosion occurred about 40ft lower down on the face of the quarry, whore 12 other men were working, and where two young men, John Fyffo and William Cassorley, were engaged drilling another hole. In addition to the blow out' which injured and burnt the men on the top, some rock and earth was displaced by on explosion near the bottom of the drill hole, and this falling downwards, struck John Fylfe, killing him instantly, and causing such injuries to William Cassorley that he died very shortly afterwards. Fyffe was struck by a piece of stone weighing about 30cwt, and the huge mass had to be levered off his body by his fellow workmen. IVm. Cassorley was taken to one of tlio huts in an unconscious condition, and expired shortly afteiv wards at the hospital. It was found necessary to amputate some of Patrick Cassorleyfingers. Several theories have been advanced to account for the explosion, one being that the oil, which is one of the constituent's of rackarock, had becomo heated in storage, and so causod the combustible to ignite. Both Taylor and Patrick Casserley, who were cjiargipg the drillhole, weie experienced' men, and had handled rackarock frequently, sometimes four or five times a day. About half the charge of 40!b had been let down the drill, and the greater portion of this must have been imprisoned in the hole at the bottom, caused by the tamping on Friday night. The exploded rackarock did not bring down a large quantity of stone, but the force of the blast rent the face, huge fissuros being made in every direction Had the drill been nearly full when the accident occurred the scope' of the disaster would have been indeed difficult to estimate.

John Fyffe, one of those who were killed, was about 25 years of age, mid was a single man, living with his mother at Millhurn. A sad circumstance in connection with his death is that two of his brothers had lost their lives by accident. One brother, Jas. _ Fyffe, yvas drowned in the Tokomairiro river about seven or eight years ago, and about Christmas last year a younger brother, Joseph Fyffe, had his leg broken at Timaru owing to a tank falling upon him, death afterwards taking place as a result of amputation of the limb. Wm. and Patrick Gasserley were broilers, the former being about 22 years of age and the latter about 25 or 27 years. They were both unmarried sons of Win. Casserley, of Fairfax, near Milton. In the course of 30 or 35 years, during which operations have been carried on at the quarries, only one fatal blasting accident'lias boon recorded prior to Saturday. That was 15 years ago, when Thomas Dryden was killed, as the result of not allowing the drill to cool before placing his charge.

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