MINE TRAGEDY
TWO MEN KILLED FATALITY AT MILLERTON. ( By Telegruph—ter tress Association) WESTPORT, June 11. Two underground managers lost their lives at the Westport'(Co^l,Company’s Milierton Mine. Tilly win'ei— William Lcwden,' a married man, aged 45, with a wi.e and, family of three. Joseph Edward Pfeifer, a married man, with a wife and six of a
family. They were gassed 'in the mine. They went into the mine to put a plug iri a water pipe behind the stopping iu the fire area. They first tried a light on th© other side of the rope for safety reasons.
Lowden went in first, and lie was gassed, and then Pfeifer, who went to his rescue, suffered a similar fate, Later gas masks were obtained, and the bodies of both men were recovered
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 5
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130MINE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1932, Page 5
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