FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 461, 4 February 1869, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHARLESTON.

On Saturday a man named Daniel Sanderson Waß drowned at Charleston while bathing. At the inquest on Monday, the following account of the circumstances was stated by David Angus: —l akn a miner residing at Charleston. I have seen the body of Dauiel Sanderson. He was a miner and a mate of mine. He was thirty years old last December, and a native of the Shetland Islands. Between four and five o'elock on the afternoon of Saturday, the 30th of January, I was down in the second bay, Charleston, bathing. I sa w deceased bathing also. As I passed him coming in, I saw him struggling alongside a rock. 1 said, " Dan, I think you have had a struggle ; he said, "No " at first, but afterwards he said, "I had quite enough to do." Deceased was holding on by the rock ; it was out of his depth. I told him to take care, and he said he was all right. About eight or nine feet from him I got bottom. He made a dive towards me; then I looked round and saw deceased struggle. I went to him and got hold of his wrist, and he put both hands to catch me. In making the effort he get free from me. I tried to catch him again. He struggled for about half a minute and then went under. He did not rise again. I saw a man named William George Miale take him out of the water about a quarter of an hour afterwards. Life was quite extinct.