FATALITY AT HENWOOD ROAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 68, 4 April 1901, Page 2

FATALITY AT HENWOOD ROAD.

INQUEST. Alt inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Hosp : tal, by Mr. R, L. Stanford, S.M., Coroner, touching the doa'h of gfephen Lirjjmer, vj;ll0 died in the institution on Tuesday eveniiv* frees injurifs received through an accident in a grav«l pit earli»r ia tb.B same day. The following jury'was empanelled : —S. W. Jackson (foreman), J. Irwin, J. Mynolt, M. Kelly, A. Powell, and F. Rowley. Constable Yeung conducted the proceedings on behalf of the police. After the jury had viewed the body,; the first witness called was George Home, medical practitioner, J who (stated that at about 4 p.m. oa Tuesday ho received a telephone mesiaga ti go out to, a caso of accident in a gravel pit. He went, and met the deoasod on tbe roid at about a quarter to five o'clock, as he was being brought into town in an express. Wi'ncss examined hira then, and found he wa» suffering from fracture of bo'h thigh bines, severe fracture of the right foraarm, and a severs lacerated wound on the rii;ht upper arm, Limmor was in a state of n.ofoumi cdlapse. Witness administered what remedies he could, and the wounds. There were also evidently severe intornal injuries. He (onsidered the cose hopeless, but advised removal to the hospital, whers death resulted at in the eveoin?] To the Ooroner : The injuries were such as would be cautisd by a fall of stone or gravel. Deith was due to collaps*. Cha'les Barribtll stated he was *ork'ng with deceased and his son in the gravel pit on tho Upland road. The accident occurred jusr, befoiM 4 p.m, wheu there wai a fall of smdstone. Deceased was working wi'.h the pick, and witness was ' wpjkjhg alongside'trim. 4 ' ar gP Wq'-'k of sandstone came d ma from above and st. uok deceased about the hips, knocking him. backwards. He remained consoious, sind called ovictq his son and witn-ssto >•< 1 e\e him, Thpy at once removod | tha stmo, and got de'eas'(l ou% and, iobtaining assistance, conveyed deceased to town. To the 0 only undermined abo I, a f"o'. Asliot had been put in two days u eviously, but there was do indication of any

danger, though it was now evident the stone must have been shaken, Theyj were working the pit in the usual way. la witness' opinion it was a sheer accident. The block of sandstone was about 3ft. 6in. long and 2ft. thick. Arthur Licnioer, son of the deceased, stated he was working with his father and Barriball in the pit on the Upland Roid. After the acoident, they got deceased out, and obtained assistance from Messrs. Paterson and Rogers, who were Bear, and then telephoned for a doctor. To the Oaroneo: Witna9s put the shot in himself a couple of days before, aboub six feet to one side of tha placo whera the stone came down. The stnlf appeared firm eoough afier that. The " faca " was undermined about a foot or eighteea inches for a width of some eight feet. There was no carelessness. in working on the pwt of any of I them. This was all the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The funeral of the late Mr. Limmer will leave the hospital at 1 p.m. to-day ' for the Henui cemetery.