FATAL ACCIDENT AT NAPIER.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1744, 22 September 1879, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT AT NAPIER.

■» THREE MEN KILLED. NAPIER, September 20. A fatal accident occurred a little before noon to-day to three men working at the reclamation works. There were a lot of men engaged in getting stuff from a hill on Chaucer road, commonly known as " Soap Bud Gully." Five of • them were inside a tunnel filling the trucks, when a large landslip occurred, stones and earth falling on the roof of the tunnel with such force and weight that the top timbers of the tunnel could not resist it, and the whole would have utterly collapsed, but for the trucks that were on the rails. Two of the men managed to get out by crawling under the trucks and getting out at the mouth of the tunnel. One had a narrow escape, being caught on the leg by a descending mass of earth. He managed, however, to extricato himself. After a while it waa found practicable to ascertain by crawling under the trucks how the three imSrisoned men fared. Two appeared to be ead, but one was alive and brandy was passed to him in a sponge. Relays of sa many men as could work together were put on, but it was past two before the bodies were got out, all three being then dead. It is supposed the third man, John Q.uinn, was suffocated by the fine sand that filled the space in which he was. He was heard to ask a little before how long they would bs getting

him out, and then when he was called to there wbb no answer. Quinn was a young fellow, aged tweuty-one, and leaves a wife and child. The other two were James Clarke, thirty-six years, and leaves a widow and seven children, and Bartellett Taravero, an Italian, unmarried.