FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE PORT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 13, 15 January 1877, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE PORT.

„ „,.A^verj;jad aasident_pccurred between two and three o'clock this afternoon at the "excavation on the Port Hills opposite the Custom House. A man named Brown, at one time a seaman on board the Ino, who was en.gagedUon the work was standing- on the bill side below where n party of men were gouging out a. mass sof ;earth. The fall, owing probably t&jthegbil being ldosened : by the heavy Mn 'b£ this morning,took place^-apoaerl than was expected, and aa the staff fejpit knocked the unfortunate man s down oahia face, and the whole mas 3 rolled over MM. ?As sooaas the accident occurred}'!'. Atkinson, who was at work 1 in the tunnel, drove,; up: to town for Br Squires, whb^rrivedr just as the poor fellow was being teoughli^wn the hill on a handbarrow. He was taken iato the Government bonded store,? and' although the heart was beating, his^head w;as so -fearfully mangled and crushed_a3 to render all hope of his living put of the question, there being a compound fracture of'.Jhe gkull, through : which the brain ns pro&uding, and half an hour later he dh;d. An, inquest will be held this evening, when fuller pkrticular3 of the cause of the accident will be obtainable. The deceased wa3 an unmarried. man. i-'z :