FATAL ACCIDENT.
' [BY TELEGRAPH.] Wi iLi.' oton, To-day. Eyaiandslip in the tunnel on the Wel-lington-Johnston villa section of the Wellington Manawatu radway two men named John Enwright • and Thomas O’Malley were killed. The overseer of the wor'-s, F. J ohn Scanlon was also buried but was saved. Particulars have not yet reached town. Later. Particulars of the accident this morning state that the men were at work at 8 20. : Enwright and O’Malley were ‘engaged inside the tunnel filling the dray when suddenly the slip occurred along the smooth face above the men, who were completely buried. A gang of men set to work to extricate them, but it was fully three-quarters of an hour before this was accompiished, and the unfortunate men were quite dead, their bodies being fearfully hmtilated and the arms and legs broken in several places. O’Malley, who was aged about 25, was a single man and ■ recent arrival from London by the ship Oxford. Enwright is also a single man, aged SO.i Ab inquest will be held.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1088, 31 October 1883, Page 3
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172FATAL ACCIDENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1088, 31 October 1883, Page 3
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