A MILLER SUFFOCATED IN HIS WHEAT.
A miller, named Henry Gilei,. who re- . sided in Redfern street, Bedfern, came to an untimely end on Monday afteernoon, at Wearne's Flour Mills, at the foot of Bathurst street. The particulars of the sad occurrence, as far as can "be gleaned, j are these: About four, minutes to 6 ! o'clock yesterday afternoon, Giles was j last seen by a young man named Joseph I Hook, engaged inside one of the bins running wheat through small holes in the ffoor of the bin, into a bin on the lower story. The bin in which Giles was employed is 30 feet long, 14 feet wide, ]p feet deep, and contained wheat between 8 or 9 feet in depth. About 6 o'clock Giles called out to the man in the lower bin to open some of the holes (which are only six inches square.) The holes were accordingly opened, and it is surmised i that Giles (who was working alone) was sucked or sank down towards the holes in the floor. In this effort to extricate him--1 self, it is believed, he struck his head against a cross?beam, for the back of his head is cut and much contused. It is thought that he was stunned by the blow and he sank down gradually through the wheat until his feet rested on the floor. Being only 5 feet 5 inches in height, there was about two feet of wheat over his head, and consequently >he was smothered. Meanwhile the man engaged in the bin underneath perceived that some of the holes were stopped and that no i wheat was running through. In order to j ascertain the cause he thrust his hand up through the hole and felt Giles' foot. ' He then rushed upstairs to Giles' bin, threw open seme of the bin doors to get rid of a large quantity of the wheat, and then called for help. A ssistance having been procured the. wheat at the place where Giles was last seen was removed, and his inanimate body found. No other way than that described is attributed as the cause of Giles*, death, for with the exception of a slight attack of sunstroke at the beginning of this year, he has never been subject to anything like a fit or sudden sickness. Moreover, he has been engaged at the kind of work he was performing at the time of his death for upwards of twelve years.. For many, years past he has been a strict to^al abstainer, and belonged to the order of Sops of Temperance. He leaves a widow and three children. Soon after the discovery of the body Dr. Day examined it, ana pronounced life extinct. — Town'and Country Journal.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2073, 26 August 1875, Page 2
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457A MILLER SUFFOCATED IN HIS WHEAT. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2073, 26 August 1875, Page 2
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