SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT.
(per press association.) DUNEDIN, April 5. A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Deep Stream section of the Otago Central Railway. The men were .at work: removing a large mass of rocks projecting over the river, the blast being fired at 1 o’clock, and they were afterwards shifting the rock loosened by the shock. Whilst thus occujiied a fragment upon which they stood suddenly gave way.- Edward Joyce fell over 100 feet down into the river; and was drowned; while Williams, the foreman, slipped a great distance, and was found lying on the bank close to the water ; his right arm was broken in two places,-and two ribs fractured, his collarbone dislocated, and he was seriously cut about the face and body. A third man, named Wright, managed to get his fingers into a cleft, and hung so, 160 feet above the water, until a rope was thrown to him, and he was rescued. At the inquest yesterday on the body of Joyce a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased leaves a very large family, and; the other man, who is so severely injured, is similarly circumstanced in this- respect. '
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1018, 6 April 1883, Page 3
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196SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1018, 6 April 1883, Page 3
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