MINING ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9991, 11 March 1910, Page 5

MINING ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

TWO MEN KTLLtiP. By Telegraph—Press Association. WAIHI, March 10. A fatal accident occurred this afternoon at the Waihi Company's mine whereby a miner named J. O'Malley, a single man, was killed instantaneously, and his mate, F. White, a married man, so seriously injured that he is not expected to live. It ap • pears that the two, in company with a miner, named Manuel, were in the ladderway in No. 4 shaft, making preparations for the harling of water and air pipes. At the time of the accident Manuel was attending winch in a intermediate level, when he heard a rushing noiss in the shaft, which it transpired was the men falling down the shaft, the distance of the fall being about 170 feet. It is surmised that the men lost their footing in the ladderway, when in the act of attaching a tackle block to a bearer across the shaft, probubly one man lost his balance, and in falling knocked his mate oft" the ladder. Later. Fred White, one of the two victims of the mining fatality, succumbed to his injuries this evening.