Fatal Accident.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3006, 3 October 1878, Page 2

Fatal Accident.

It is our sad task to chronicle a fatal accident, which happened at about halfpast eleven o'clock to-day at the New. market section of the Moanatai mine, the victim being a tributer named Thomas Pugh. Deceased and his mate, a man named Green, were working in a stope, and at about 11.30 Green left deceased to go to the surface for the purpose of sharpening some picks. He returned in about 10 minutes, and called down the winze to Pugh. [Receiving no reply, he caVed again, and then went down to the stope, where he found the deceased jammed in a sitting posture against the wall of the stope, with about a ton of mullock on top of him. He was quite dead. The mullock had slipped from the upper part of the opposite wall of the stope. Green obtained the assistance of two men named Charnock and Robinson, and dug out the unfortunate man. A stretcher being procured the body was removed to the Grand Junction Hotel, in the Moanatairi Creek, where it now, lies. The police were communicated with about one o'clock, and they examined the body and found injuries which must have caused instantaneous death, the chest being completely caved in. Deceased, who was about 35 years of age, has. only been married about a twelvemonth, and leaves a wife and child to mourn his untimely end.