A very bad accident has happened on the claim of the Manuherikia Sluicing Company. Ronald McDougall and Robert Boyd, with a third man, were walling up a "deep ditch," prior to commencing sluicing operations; when, from causes unknown, a sudden slip of the side of the cutting, about 17ft deep, took place, completely burying up the two men named, while the third escaped with only a bruised leg. An hour elapsed before the large amount of fallen rock, which must have weighed fully 20-tons, could be removed, when it was proved beyond doubt that both of the poor fellows must have died instantaneously. -Otago Daily Times, 20/9/1866.
Clyde Cemetery.
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