TWO MEN KILLED BY LANDSLIP IN A TUNNEL.
Wellington, This day. By a landslip in a tunnel on the Wellington and Johnsonville section of tho Wellington and Manawatu railway two men named John Enwright and Thomas O'Malley were killed. The overseer of the works, John Scanlon, was also buried, but ho was saved. It appears that the men were at Avork at 8.20 this morning. Enwright and O'Malley were engaged inside the tunnel fining a dray, Avhcn suddenly a slip occurred along the smooth face above the men, Avho were completely hurried. A gang of men set to work to extricate them, but fully three-quarters of an hour elapsed before this Avas accomplished, and when uncovered the unfortunate men were quite dead, their bodies being fearfully mutilated, and the arms and legs broken in several places. O'Malley, who is aged about 25, is a single man, and a recent arrival from London by the ship Oxford. Enwright is also a single man, aged 30. An inquest will bo held.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3835, 31 October 1883, Page 3
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