LATEST FROM THAMES. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THAMES. A MINER FATALLY INJURED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 359, 13 April 1889, Page 2

LATEST FROM THAMES. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THAMES. A MINER FATALLY INJURED.

THAMES, Last Night. A serious accident happened at ] • •'clock thi* morning to Mr Patrick Nolan, one Of the underground " bosses " in the Saxon G. M. Co*s mine, ami who for many years was Government overseer of the Thames railway work. It would appear that Nolan went on to work at midnight, an I about an hour later poeeeded to go throiiLfh the stopes over No. 2 level for the purpose or giving instruction. He hail arrived at the sixth ftope near the Junction, in which a miner uauvd Paterson w;ts workinir, and had mentioned to the latter the advisability of putting in shot in a certain place to di.slo.^e some stuff. Nolan, who was in a sitting posture, was in the act o[ handing Paterson a dynamite cap from his pocket when a fall of stuff took place. The latter saw the mullock cominif ami caught Nolan hy his clothes to pull him out ot the way, l>nt in this he wjh only partially successful and 5 or 6 ewe of stuff fiom the hanging wall 'truck Nolan between tV shoulders, after falliivjr two or three feet. Tl c cause of the stuff becoming 1 detached was "scapv head.*' The unfortunate man w»« quickly extricated and taken to the hocpittl, where an px.uuitmt'oii wa« made l>y ])r William?, when it w.i« ascertained that the spine li.id l»pon badly frnctnreil nnd con«pqnently iid hope could he entertained of rcrovecy. The lower portion of tho body, fiom the wai"t dowuwar's, i? coiniVetely paraly-ed. and the oa*p i^ a |iom»>lc?<? one. No hlnni.*; whalevor is attrilni'itl le to anyon". j