Murchison Advocate, Saturday 21 March 1903
William Henry WYATT
Age at Death45
Date Of Death19 March 1903 : Reg 1549/1903
Place Of BirthDandaragan, Western Australia
OccupationEngine driver
Spouse's NameMarried twice - 1st Sarah BOODA 2nd Charlotte WILLIGEN nee SAVAGE
Children1st Marr William Henry born 1895 - 2nd Marr - William Walter born 1878 - James born 1880 - Frederick William born 1882
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Rubicon GM, Cue, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Caught in the pumping steam engine and dashed to death.
Place Of Burial
Cue and Day Dawn General Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Married twice
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Place of marriage
Unknown
Other Information
aka WIGGATT
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 24 March 1903, page 2 The Rubicon Accident.
The inquiry concerning the death of William Henry Wyatt, who was killed at the Rubicon mine, last week, was held before Mr. A. Hicks (coroner) and a jury comprising Messrs. Corbett, Coward, and Collier, on Monday. George Read, laborer, stated that the deceased asked for assistance, at the pump; the witness went to the back of the flywheel, and the deceased went to the front and got hold of the spokes to lift the wheel round. As soon as the crank was over the center engine, the deceased came over with it. He saw the deceased was jammed and turned off steam, and then told the foreman. Two miners afterward took the body of the deceased out of the machinery. Steam had been turned on before they started the whole. Malcolm Ferguson, foreman of the Rubicon Mine, gave evidence as to being called by the previous witness, seeing deceased in the machinery, having the body taken out, and sending for a medical man. P.C. Pilmau gave evidence as to preceding to the mine, ascertaining particulars of the accident and making charts of the body. F. J. Lauder, the inspector of Mines, wilted that he had visited the mine ou the morning following the accident and found that the machinery had been fixed according to the Act. He took measurements of the speed of the wheel. He claimed that the wheel was traveling at the rate of 800 feet per minute when the accident occurred, that the space between the wheel and where deceased was crushed was four inches, when the crankpin was down, 1 7-8th inch. He concluded that the occurrence was purely un accident. Tho inquiry was adjourned several minutes to allow Dr. Blaucliard to be present. On resuming Dr. Blaucliard gave evidence as to the nature of injuries received and considered that the death of the deceased was instantaneous.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased met his death by being crushed in machinery at the Rubicon Mine and that there was no blame attributable to anyone, the occurrence being purely accidental.
