DEATH FROM DYNAMITE.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1610, 7 October 1885, Page 2

DEATH FROM DYNAMITE.

We learn from th.r*Mell>ourae Daily Telegraph that when the Noxious Fumes Board sat in Sandhurst, Mr Sneddon, who was one of those who gave evidence, said he had heard of a case in which a man had died through inhaling the fumes of dynamite. Dr Atkinson doubted this statement, and said he waa sure if such a case occurred iv this district, there would have been an inquest and a record of it in the local papers. A;, the last meeting of the committee of the Bendigo Miners' Association, the Bendigo Independent reports that Mr David Jones explained that he had told Mr Sneddon of this case. The man who had perished was William Cook, a brother-in-law of his, and the place where it had happened was in a mine at Hill End, near Bathurst. The man had inhaled the fumes of some dynamite which had caught fire in an open box in one of the levels and was slowly smouldering away. He inhaled the fumes at a quarter to 3in the afternoon, was immediately taken ill, and uext morning, at 1 o'clock, he was a corpse. It is an unfortunate circumstance that Mr Jones does not know who .he doctor was that attended his brother in-law, but this could surely

he easily ascertained by writing to j Bathurst. (The Silver Age.) j