SUFFOCATED IN SLIMES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 23, 25 January 1913, Page 8

SUFFOCATED IN SLIMES.

FATALITY AT THE HILL. Broken Hill, January 10. The Junction North Mine was the scene of a fatality last night, at about 11.20 o’clock, when Robert Karies, described as a Russian Finn, aged 4L, 1 iboure.r, was suffocated by an quantity cf slimes in the slime bin connected with the 'flotation plant at that mine. Karies was in attendance at the dime storage bins, seeing to the proper working of the slimes as they were fed into the bin from the flotation plant. Suddenly another attendant missed Karies, and it was at once made apparent that the man had fallen into the oozy mass. The second attendant at once called for assistance, and the doors at the back of the bin .rare opened, and the material allowed :o flow out. In the meantime a tele-t.-onic message'was conveyed to Dr. .Bartley. After about a quarter of an i cur’s work the unfortunate man was extricated. Dr. Bartley examined the body and pronouncel life extinct. How the man went into the bin is at ./resent a mystery. No one saw him fall or get into it. The belief is, however, that he must have dropped something into the slime, and entered the bin with the object of recovering it.