Serious Accident at Waihi.
TWO MINERS INJURED. News is te-hand of a serious accident having taken place in the Waihi mine, on Tuesday evening last. At 12 o’clock Andrew Swan and Harry Hicks, employed on Wilson’s contract in the Waihi mine, received severe injures through falling out of the engine bucket, a distance of about 45 fee', to the Bottom of the shaft, when coming off afternoon shift. Hicks b unconscious and badly bruised. Swan has one rib broken, and it is supposed to have penetrated his lungs. Dr Porter is attending the men. The shaft referred to is probably a new one recently sunk above No. 2 shaft, and to be used for filling mullock into the worked stopes below. The mine manager (Mr Tlios. Gilrnour) wired to inform the Inspector of Mines of a serious accident having occurred,-, and the telegram was forwarded to Mr Coutts at Te Aroha, and to Mr Ryan at Paeroa.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2
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157Serious Accident at Waihi. Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2
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