MINING ACCIDENTS.
TERRIBLE DEATH OF A MANAGER. James Richards, mine manager of the Great Southern Goldmining Company, Sandhurst), met a terrible death last week. No. 6 shaft, > which is 400fb. deep, was found to be on fire, supposed to have been caused by boys. Some of the shaft timbering and an old whim above ground, were burned. Richards, with several men, covered over the shaft so as to smother the fire. At a later hour Richards and another man went to renew the covering, and stood on a plank placed above the shaft, when the corner of the shaft suddenly gave way, pveoipitatingaquantity of timber and earth, together with Richards, down the shaft. The other man escaped by a well-timed jump. Richards must have been killed instantly, owing to the quantity of air and smoke in the shaft, besides which there was a hundred feet of water at the bottom. Richards was thirty years of age, and leaves a widow and family.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 448, 22 February 1890, Page 5
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162MINING ACCIDENTS. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 448, 22 February 1890, Page 5
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