Fatal Bush Accident

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3711, 16 November 1880, Page 2

Fatal Bush Accident

For a long time the mines of the Thaule* enjoyed the unenviable notoriety of being particularly dcUrnctive 16 human life, but of late the forests of our vicinity have usurped that distinction, as now barely a wreic pa«ses without some ferious or fatal accident happening to the sturdy bushmen of our district. The latent Addition to the sorrowful list is a young man nanrd Jeremiah JoDes, who [met bis death at Bagaali's bush yest3rday morning. It appears that the deceased with his mate?, Harry. Moore and James Mann were employed ,in tracking a log cat from a. forest giant, from the bash to the rivei", i»nd ere half the distance had been covered, the huge pices of timber rolled off. | The young men hud jacked it up on to the trolly again, and were lifting the trolly on to the line, when the log, slipped and fell. Deceased, who was n arest the log, ducked his head, but struck against a stump, and the next instant wrs lying on the ground partially decapititc'l. Death must kave'rbc-an instantaneous. His mates say that at the fatal moment one of them called out '• Look out I" the deceased simultaneously exclaiming "Ohl" Mann and Mo are speedily jacked the log off the body, apd conveyed it to the bask of the river, when it was conveyed to JCopu wharf. A spring cart being obtained, it was taken to Shortland, and deposited in the Morgue. An inquest on the body, of deceased was held at three o'clock this efternoon. ..