MINE FATALITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 1

MINE FATALITY.

I- A 1.1. I IF S'l t INK AT lIOBSON. OB FA .Moll 11. 0,1. |J. A shucking l.italily oei urn-d at Dobson yesterday allerniiou, when an elderly man. James Foul, aged about fi7 years, -uceumhed to shock and injuries sustained i hl'ough a fall of stone at the l"|> mine at which he was working. •No details are at present available as to til - cause ol ilie accident. Deceased'- injuries were mii in themselves <J a very serious uaiui'e. and he was f eiiveye.l to Dobson, where he shortly afterwards died of shuck. The mine at which the accident occurred is that ai .Mount Buckley, where live miners have been working m a co-operative parly, supplying the coal used hy tile boilers at the Bohsim mine. The fall of coal from the roof occurred at 2JIO p.m. where the deceased was taking a pillar out. the debris striking Ford on the shoulder, fracturing two ribs, and also Ids thigh, and inflicting thereon a cut a couple ol inches in length. Ii was not far from the pit mouth, and deceased displayed great pluck, wlnm brought out. remarking to his sou (iih-n a member of the party) that alter a short rest lie would he able to walk. However, he then took a turn suddenly, ami soon expired. Dr .1. W. Meßrearty. who hail been stun moiled, afterwards expressed : lie opinion i Inn shock bad been lhe iminedialt of death. The laic Mr Ford, who all his life ha- been a miner, was a line ivpc oi man, admirable alike in elm rue: or and physique, ll is only a couple of tears since his arrival in the Dominion ! rum Scot land, hut he had in the interim made many friends, and much rogiet is jell at Dobson over his sudden death, lie leaves a grown-up family, two of hi' soils being .Messrs John I’ord of Dobson, and James Ford, surveyor, of Stratford. Blair and Co.’s stall. Mreymouth. Daughters ol deceased are Alesdames T. Black and George Ki'skine. oi Dobson. while another daughter resides in Mretniunth. An inquest will he held this alter-