An incident worth noting happened in connection with the two men who accidentally met their death at the town wharves during the present week. Peter Drow was on the wharf late Wednesdav night, when John Hunter Stewart fell into the harbor. Drow assisted to get the body out, went to the hotel to make arrangements about its being received there, and helped to carry it up. Within a brief space of time he himself was placed beside it, a corpse, being accidentally killed on the steamer Mokoia early the next morning. Both men were buried to-day. Another painful feature in connection with Stewart's death is that so far his parents have not been acquainted with the. fact, as they reside at Dunback, in the inland portion of Otago. -Evening Star, 18/5/1901.
FATAL FALL DOWN A HOLD.
A fatal accident happened on the Mokoia on May 16, whereby Peter Drow, a Belgian, aged sixty-four years, lost his life. He was at work on the hatch, when a sling of wheat, swinging inwards, struck him and knocked him over into the hold. He fell a distance of about thirty feet, striking in his downward passage the hatches on the 'tween decks. He sustained a deep cut above the eyebrow, and the concussion must have fractured his skull for he died almost immediately. Mr W. Mearns, of the Railway Department, rendered first aid, and Dr Blomfield, who was summoned, came at once. The body was conveyed to the Wharf Hotel where Mr G. C. Graham subsequently held an inquest. Evidence having been given, the jury, without retiring, returned & verdict of "Accidental death, no blame being attachable to anyone." -Evening Star, 20/5/1901.
DEATHS
DROW. — On the 16th May, accidentally killed on the wharf, Peter Drow; aged 64 years. Deeply regretted. R.I.P. -Evening Star, 20/5/1901.
DEATHS
STEWART. — On the 15th May, at Dunedin (accidentally drowned), John Hunter Stewart. son of John Stewart, Dunback, and brother of James Stewart, Goodwood; aged 34 years, Deeply regretted. -Otago Daily Times, 21/5/1901.
John Hunter Stewart and Peter Dow were buried in unmarked graves in (respectively) Dunedin's Northern and Southern Cemeteries.
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