BURIED BY LANDSLIDE
THREE LIVES ROST.
COLLAPSE OF TUNNEL PROPPINO. ißy IWerraph—Prces A«eooifctton.) Cisborne, October 16. At 8.30 this morning, whilst excavation was proceeding at tho reservoir sito at Waingake, .twenty miles from Gisborne, a landslide caused tho timberwork to givo way. Three men wero caught in tho tunnel. Ono, named Wilds, was extricated, but the others, Fletcher and Houston, and anothfer wero buried in tho debris.
Wykes, tho foreman at. Waingake, states that he heard a thud, and on investigating found tho mouth of tho tunnel used for bringing tho spoil from tho excavation on tile hillside had collapsed. About two tons of spoil had fallen, and it was Cedent that tno three men working in tho tunnel were just passing below with a truckload of spoil when the fall occurred, completely burying them. liescito operations wore promptly commenced, and the bodies of tho three men were recovered within twenty minutes.
Frank Wilds had been only three days on the job, and the other two, D. Fletcher and H. Houston, eight days, the men having come from tno Matawai railway works. The engineer is unable to account for tho slip. He considers the timber-work supporting the tunnel was substantial.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 8
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200BURIED BY LANDSLIDE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 8
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