A MILLER SUFFOCATED IN HIS WHEAT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 344, 8 October 1875, Page 3

A MILLER SUFFOCATED IN HIS WHEAT.

. A miller named Henry Giles, who resided in Kedfern street. Iledfern, came to an untimely- end on Monday ahernoon, at Wearne's Flour Mills, at the foot of Bathurst street. The particulars of the sad occurrence, as. Jar as can be gleaned, are these: About four minutes to 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Giles was last seen by a young man named Joseph Hook, engaged insidi one of the bins running wheat through small holes in the flour of the bin, into a bin on the lower story. The bin in which Giles was. employed is 30 feet long, 14 feet wide, 10 feet deep, and contained wheat between 8 or 9 feet in depth. A bout 6. o'clock Giles cal led ou t to the man in the lower bin to open some" of the holes (which are only six inches square.). The holes were accordingly opened, and it is f.unnised that Giles (who was working alone) was sucked or sank down towards the heles in the floor. In this effort to extricate himself, it is believed, he struck his head against n crossbeam, for the back of his head is cut and contused, Jt is thought that he was stunned by the blow and be sank down gradually through the wheat until his feet rested on the floor. Being only 5f- et 5 inches in height, there was about two ieet of wheat over his head, and consequently he was smothered. .Meanwhile the man engaged in the bin underneath perceived that some of the-holes were stopped and that no wheat was running through. In order to ascertain the cause he thrust his hand up through the hole and felt Giles' foot. lie thdi-rushed upstairs to. Giles' bin, threw open some of the bin doors to get rid of a a large quantity of the wheat, and then called for help. Assistance having luin procured the wheat at the place were Gilea was last seen was removed, and his inanimate body found. No-other way than that described is attributed as ihe cause of Giles' death, lor with the exception of a slight attack of sunstroke at the begining of this year, he has never been subject to anything like a fit or sudden sickness. Moreover, he has been engaged at the kind of work he was performing at the time of his death for upwards oi twelve 3'ears. For many years past I.e. hus bten a ttrict total.abstrainer, and btlon ed to the cider of Soil3-of Temperance. Jle haves a widdow and three children.. Soin alter the discovery i.f il,e tidy !>«• J\iy examinediiy and jaoLouiiccd life extinct:—"'iowil -aid-Ctuntrv JcuTEal'.