DISTRESSING FATALITY.
MAN KILLED IN A QUARRY. -By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRI3TCHURCH, October 5. A distressing fatality occurred in F. Andrews' quarry on Sumner Road, about midday to-day. An employee named Josiah Miller, with two other men, was working under a face, when a fall of earth and rock took place. Three men ran for their lives, and the other two got out of danger. Miller, however, either stumbled or was unable to get away an time, and was overwhelmed. He was completely buried with the exception of his head and face, and although extracted very quickly he was found to be dead. The body was carried into a shed close by. A doctor found that the deceased had a deep wound near his eye. His left leg was broken above tha ankle, and his chest was badly bruispd. A gaping wound on the face where Miller had evidently be=n struck by a rock would m the doctor's opinion be sufficient to cauße death. Miller was a married man, residing in Grafton Street, Linwood, and was 36 years of age.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 6
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179DISTRESSING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 6
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