ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 146, 29 September 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MINER KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Grevmouth, yesterday. James Bafcer, aged sixty, working yesterday in the State Colliery at Phillars, met with fatal injuries through a fall of the*roof. It took over two hours to extricate him, owing to the roof continuing to fall, rendering .rescue work difficult They go.t him out at 3.30 p.m. He was removed to the hospital, but succumbed at 7. He leaves a widow and five children, the youngest being only a few months old. SERIOUS SAWMILL ACCIDENT. Wellington, Last Night. . William August Manson, aged about 28 years, single, in the employ of Price and Co., sawmillers, Akataravva, met with a serious accident to-dav, and grave doubts are entertained a« to his recovery. He was working in tihe fbush about one o'clock hauling logs, when two dog hooks, used for hooking timber, which is hauled toy wire ropes with power supplied by an engine some distance away, became unattached 'from a log to which they were fastened. The hooks struck Manson with terrific force, breaking his right leg and fracturing his skull. Manson, who was rendered unconscious, was carried iby his mates on a stretcher five miles out of t)he toush on to the main road, where a vehicle was in waiting. Dr. Kemp met tihe trap on its way to Upper Hutt, and, after temporarily attending the sufferer, ordered his removal to the Wellington Hospital. Manson has a brother ami sister residing in Blenheim.