MINE ACCIDENT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 360, 17 April 1889, Page 4

MINE ACCIDENT.

MR PATRICK NOLAN PARALYSED. Thames, April 13. A serious accident happened about 1.30 this morning to Mr Patrick Nolan, one of the shift " bosses <s in the Saxon C4.M. Company's mine. It appears that Nolan went on with the night shift at midnight, and was going through the stopes over to No. 2 level about an hour and a half later. When the accident occurred he had arrived at a place where a miner named Peterson was working, and after giving some instructions as to where a hole should be put in to blast away some stuff, he was in the act of handing Peterson a dynamite cap when about a truckful of mullock came away from the hangingwall. Peterson saw the stuff coming and seized Nolan by the clothes to pull him out of the way, but in this he was only partially successful, and the mullock caught the injured man between the shoulders. His hands were also much lacerated. He >vas at once taken to the Hospital, where it was found that his spine was injured, and this morning Nolan is paralysed from the waist downwards. There seems but little hope of his recovery. The manager (Mr Dunlop) was promptly in attendance and rendered evevy assistance possible. Nolan was formerly Government overseer of the Thames railway works, and is well known in Auckland. LATER. Nolans accidenb is even more serious t l an was at fireb thought, as the spine is badly fractured.