MINING ACCIDENTS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 926, 13 February 1872, Page 2

MINING ACCIDENTS.

We learn from the " Grey Rivei Argus" that a miner named David Touchen was killed by a landslip a! Duffer Creek on the night of Wednea day, 7th inst. The accident was dii covered by a man named Benjamin Southworth, who went to the place where the deceased used to reside earlj on Thursday morning. Touchen's hut stood on a ledge overhanging one o. the. upper tributaries of Duffer Creek He lived by himself, some distana from any other camp, and he wa heard playing a flute in his hut lat on Wednesday night. Some tim during tho night, which was ver] stormy, a portion of the range abovi the house slipped down, and carriei the hut of the deceased away with i into the creek below. He was foum lying calmly on his stretcher, with the roof of the hut lying on his dea body, and he appeared to have bee killed in his sleep, for there wasni expression of pain or suffering on to features. An inquest was to be hell at Ahaura on the remains on Fridaj The deceased was an Englishman, 2 years of age. His parents live at Moreaki, Wellington, at which plaa he resided for a long time himself. . From the same paper we learn tha a serious accident occurred to a mine named William Thomas, a member e the Canadian Water Race Co., a Upper Noble's Creek, on Thursdaj Bth inst. Ho was working at tbi juuctiou of two tail-races leading froi the claim, and, without any warning the sides of one of them caved in an buried him. A large root or stump j a tree fell across his head and inflicts an ugly wound, but the extent of h other injuries cannot be ascertained He was extricated without delay, and brought by a number of men froi Noble's and Napoleon, to Ahaura, | Friday morning. Fortunately tha were two boats detained by the flod at the Ahaura, and a good opportunit was afforded of forwarding the suffere to Greymouth for surgical treatment A man named Andrew Chriatiae Thyxhan was killed on Monday, | instant, by the falling of a tree on tbi road between the Kanieri and lloss and about two and a-half miles froi the latter place. It appears that tin deceased was working with Mr M'Gc veriu (late of the Kisiug Sun Hotel Hokitika,) and the latter was felling tree, which, in dropping, broke off branch from another tree, and 1 branch struck deceased and injure him so much that he died in an hail and a-half afterwards. Deceased,!) rived here about eighteen months ag from Denmark. He was a marrie man, and leaves a wife and four chl dren to mourn his loss, the younge child being about twelve months oil and the oldest nine years.