FATAL LAND SLIP.
[PER PEES 3 ASSOCIATION.]
Auckland, This Day.
A shocking accident occurred at the waterworks at Nihotupu, shortly before ten this morning, by which two men named Hugh Fulton and William Smy the have no doubt lost their lives through a fall of earth and rocks. The accident took place on the No. 12 contract, at which five men were working, the two deceased and ihree men named Evans, Rosier and Parker. Evans saw a great fall of earth and rocks emerge Fulton and Smythe, and at once went to send news to town. The bodies have not yet been recovered, but there is hardly any doubt that the men have been killed. Fulton was the contractor for the section and came from Kaukauakapa. Smythe, who was 19 years of age, came from Nihotupu. All the men available were at once set to work to recover the bodies, which were unearthed about 4 p.ra under about 200 tons of debris, life of course being extinct. Fulton was a married man with five children.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 June 1901, Page 3
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175FATAL LAND SLIP. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 June 1901, Page 3
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