TWELVE HOURS BURIED IN SNOW.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2379, 8 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

TWELVE HOURS BURIED IN SNOW.

Wk take ill" following from th" Cbri-t----cliurch Press;— Our ri ad-rs will remember ;i parairrapb abml time weeks mentioning ib.it a :a m !i w ba a barb-d ia an aval in die at Brownian's Fiji. We are now in p .ss-sshm of the full facts, obtained from Mr 1 lira- p-rs-.nallv, given a- near as po-sibh- in bis own words. “ My mat-.-. F i r I) inks. and my.-elf left the camp about half pa-". eb-vvii on iho night u f the Itltb of Augu-t to reii--vc the two men who worked the shift ia ih ■ tunnel till midnight. The funn-1 we were driving is about !wo thousand feet from the camp, an 1 Tr- reached it by a long sidiiiig asient. We hid gut over about three-parts of the journey. Dunks iu front of me carrying ill- i intern. He b id aearly got out of a wash's! out ravine or g aicb we ii td to cross on the mountain side when we heard a Iml noise, and o -lore 1 coaid re ills - wliat. o an-ed it I foua I myself buried and c irri- d along by th- now. For what >e -n-d !-• me about live minutes i strugg" '1 1 -p rit -ly to free nr. - f by attempting to pu-h my way up • nrls, and wi- -till iu an uptight position. A -.mein n ..f su'fa'j ,n, and one is if the life was b-iug cr i-acd out of me i y pr e-sun- tinea e. -r. ill ,- ia >, and I remembers! nothing air- tii! - me hoars nft-r 1 wts found." D-cribing otiier cinnni-ta-i lie -ays—“T;i of my males wci- looking for m- from the lime (11.la p.in.fiba* I> inks gave tic- alarm at the drive liil no >n th- next day. T:j._*y had span'll', d a l *t ?-v and th** >a nv with r 1-. Mr iJ jrward, th" “ hj av i-: ah-nit !•» i-sno ordvrs for th" "irn 11 try hijh r r t :t the hill, when a littl ■* t-'iTa*r i\ !j"3onj;ng to Jimmy I>urd coai!Jieii"*d scratching and uhini.o4 s i:nc li'tinci fr-> a tlj.on in mother direction ; and. onent*loathe solid, hird~ua\v away, they f*mu:l me fonr feet bvlr.v the sarlaw fitted as in a mould, lyni-f o i my Where I was lunmi in ivd from where I was tlr-t imiied, and the pressure of the snow behind hid ci:ii-;d me over t lie hi_ r n hs-iidC An i aero-.s :i deep en-'-h miming at the mountain foot. I iiid not feel ojM, hut rocks or else Hie friction on the snow jmilcl on two of my linger nails, and badly bruis-d some par-s of my inly. When the men were carrying me to the camp I recovered soil:.-Scully to ask what hid happened, lint was not aide to fully remember the accident til! I had a sleep. (Ja the llllh I was ail nght, but sore and stiff.