MAN BURIED ALIVE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 11

MAN BURIED ALIVE

Sudden Fall Of Rock In Quarry

TWO OTHERS INJURED Accident At Cave Line Works By Telegraph—Press Association. TIMARU, March 20. One man was buried alive and two others injured, one of them seriously, when, without warning, several thousand tons of rock and debris fell in a quarry at the Cave lime works, 20 miles from Umaru, this morning. The victims were: KILLED. Eric Woods, married, a resident of Cave. INJURED. James Gunn McVey, severe internal injuries. Marcus McVey, brother of James McVey; dislocated shoulder and head injuries. Mr. Marcus McVey was working at the top of a cliff face, 100 feet high, when the face gave way. He gripped at the safety rope but. missed, and fell on top of the falling rock. Mr. Woods, who was buried in the fall, was working a few feet up from the bottom of the cliff and was trapped without, hope of escape. Mr. James McVey was working on a tractor scoop at the foot of the cliff. The tractor was hurled 20 yards across the flat and down a bank. Mr. McVey retained his seat till the tractor came to rest at the bottom of the bank, when he was thrown a further 15 feet among willows. When found he had a large limestone rock across his groin. A fourth man in the quarry, Mr. Alfred Kerr, escaped uninjured.