SWISS TUNNEL COLLAPSE
VEVEY, May 5,
Yesterday morning, shortly after nine o'clock, a gallery in course of construction by the Orisons’ Hydraulic Force Company at Klosters collapsed burying ten workmen. Fortunately the pumps were undamaged, otherwise the party would have been quickly drowned. Notwithstanding frantic efforts to reach the entombed men, not until late in afternoon was it possible to communicate with them, by means of a pipe, through which nourishment was passed. Seven men were able to reach the rear gallery, sixty feet long, bo fore the roof collapsed, but it is feared, three Italians me buried beneath the fall. The work of piercing - the sixteen feet of rock and earth behind which the survivors are entombed is proceeding feverishly. It is hoped they will be liberated this afternoon
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1922, Page 2
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130SWISS TUNNEL COLLAPSE Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1922, Page 2
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