FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
OSK MAX DEAD. Per Press Association. Auckland, Saturday, liuigg, one of tllie victim's of flic I Maram.irua colliery iuciilviit, .-ays that iniost likely one o'f Hie shots loosened ) Hie w.\l in th* roof, ami this fell prat- I tKially .without warning. IJuigg'-s lirotiWr was working some: distance off. Shlanby -wiiis trucking, null there was another man named Ferguson hi t'lii; vicinity. Quigg does not'j know what became o'f him. The. root win iv thev wWv working on the big' seam was 20 to 25 feet, overhead, They' were splitting pi Hare. Q"'gg heard a .splitting sound, and called out, "-My Hod! we're' killeVl!" Quigg was stooping, and Shanhy was standing. The falling coal caught tjuigg on the head and back, burying him past his waist. One block lying across his legs had to be split before it <ould be removed. T'lic manager of the' colliery lias received no additional particulars, and so far as he knows there are only two men injured. Uiter. The mkidi I'VrgtßSon, wllio was in the Mara mania min*' 1 at lll <'' ti,m ' of tl,c .uvidrtit. was killed. His body tax 1 i found under the fallen coal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 2
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195FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 2
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