Menzies Cemetery, Western Australia. Photo by Judy Schramm
Patrick LYSAGHT
Age at Death35
Date Of Death19 November 1901 : Reg 748/1901
Place Of BirthCo Clare, Ireland
OccupationMiner
The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette, Thu 21 Nov 1901
Panel on the Miners Memorial at the WA Museum Kalgoorlie WA
Westralian Worker, Fri 6 Dec 1901
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum, Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Lady Shenton GM, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Engaged in filling some trucks with sand when a big slip occurred, almost completely burying Lysaght. Lysaght’s head was the only part of his body visible and his mates immediately set to work to get him out, while a messenger was sent for Dr Corlis. After about ten minutes work the body was extricated, but on Dr Corlis’s arrival a little later he pronounced life to be extinct, death having been caused by suffocation.
The tailings dump at which the men were working was about 15 ft or 20 ft high, and a large quantity of the heavy sand fell on the deceased, literally crushing the life out of him.
Place Of Burial
Menzies Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Single
District
Menzies
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Henry Lysaght
Mother
Kate Neville
Other Information
LYSAGHT Patrick d. 19 Nov 1901 age 35 mine accident born Co Clare Ireland. (Also known as John DAVIS) – North Coolg death cert 54/1901
