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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81895, 28 November 1906, Page 2

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staying blocks give way. VESSEL FORTUNATELY REMAINED UPRIGHT. ' IFTy MKN BATTERED 'MIDST ILOAIhVG TIMBER. TWO WORKMEN MASSING. NUMBER INJURED, Per Press Association. „Tle Si , eamM ' when Dock just ß befor e th \ Mtlcd down and su^^d' stages alongside rf die sfeameM y A n z« r of them thorn s L O o U T WereinjUred ' flom6Of I lie Mamari had entered the dock 1 washing the hul , a 8 a * Painting, when, without the ih? fi yarning, the huge bulk of efive thousand-ton steamer slid bodily forward about four feet and ™ down upon the dock bottom. iboiit° r te!r a \. th ? m™ 6 reacted 10 "V V ■' bll £ e keels, but when the Mamari settled down in such a sudden manner, the extra displacement raised a commotion similar 10 a tidal wave, Vliich swept backwards and forwards in tl# narrow basm overwhelming the workers in a terrible confusion of drifting pontoons and broken timber. I he men who had been scrubbing' ,t ir ?" were in an instant engulfed m the seething water turmo'l, winch swept them, helplessly against the cement sides of the dock, and threw them back to the! iron hull with terrible force.

A few escaped injury, and at least ■ >vo men woVe either killed or drowned.

It was with a crashing noise that the bulky vessel made the fatal forward more,- and the wonder was that she did not rip out all the wooden shores which propped her ia an ip-rig-ht position.

A number of shores fell, but luckily the majority held.

The Mamari, fortunately, kept a perpendicular position, and the men who wel'e struggling in the water were spared a terrible death by crushing between the ship, and the dock

When all the workmen floating had reached, the dock side, and the water had become calm, there was a hasty, muster of the roll, and the discovery 'w s made that two men were missing. They had been working near the vessels rolling chocks. Their names were R. Clark, a painter, aged 22, living in Ponsonby, unmarried, and VV. May, a painter, aged 22, also liivng in Ponsonby and unmarried. It is surmised they are below the rolling chocks, but the divers failed to find them.

•Those injured are Franklin W, Knox, H. Taylor Westren (seriously), J. May 18 (seriously), Langley (2), Kenneth Scott, Jules. Poynton,Carson, G. Evans, S. Austin, J. Anderson,. J. Wilson, T. Clark, G. Smith (both legs fractured), Carr, Mona* glian, Flanigan,. and S. Gr ngrove.