COROMANDEL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 143, 25 March 1872, Page 3

COROMANDEL.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

On the forenoon of Wednesday last, another sad and fatal accident occurred at one of our sawmills. One of the workmen, named John Stancliff,while engaged in the mill of Mr Pollard, at Port Charles, was struck with great violence on the side of the head and right temple by a piece of timber thrown from the circular Jsaw.

He remained in a state of total insensibility until his death on the following morning at three o’clock. The most praiseworthy and diligent efforts were made by both manager and men to procure surgical aid from Coromandel. A boat was at once dispatched, which, after doubling Cape Horn, reached Ivapanga a little after midnight. Dr Payne at once responded to the call for his services, and without delay proceeded upon his dreary voyage, but, as we know now, could only reach the distant scene of the disaster long after life had become extinct. The difficulties of a pull (even in a good whale-boad) to Port Charles are not confined to its length, which cannot be much under 60 miles, the strong and adverse tides peculiar to the locality considerably increase them. —Coromandel Mail.