Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Owen HUGHES
Age at Death34
Date Of Death11 May 1904 : Reg 1513/1904
Place Of BirthWales, United Kingdom
OccupationMiner/Plant Hand
Laverton Mercury, Friday 13 May 1904, page 2
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Turn of the Tide GM, Mount Morgans, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Suffocated by dynamite fumes. Died in the Mt Morgans Hospital.
Place Of Burial
Mount Magnet Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
Eric Chamberlain (Volunteer)
District
Mt Morgans
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Other Information
Kalgoorlie Miner, Wednesday 11 May 1904, page 5 MINING FATALITY AT MOUNT MORGANS. MOUNT MORGANS, May 10.
A man named Owen Hughes, aged 37 years, one of a party of contractors engaged in sinking an underlay shaft on the Turn of the Tide mine, met with death yesterday, supposedly through dynamite fumes. An inquest was opened today and adjourned till tomorrow.
Westralian Worker, Friday 20 May 1904, page 5
THE LATE OWEN HUGHES.
Mr. Owen Hughes, recently suffocated by dynamite fumes in the Turn of the Tide Mine, Mount Morgans, had a few sensational experiences in his time. In New Zealand, on one occasion, he was with a search party, looking for a boy who was lost in the snow, when an avalanche carried five of the party away over a tremendous precipice. The bodies were buried under the snow in a deep ravine, but Hughes carried them one by one to level ground. On another occasion, he was struck by a jet from the nozzle of a sluicing plant, knocked into the tail race, and narrowly escaped being forced through the pipe with the mullock and sludge. On this occasion his escape was miraculous.
