COLERIDGE DISASTER
[JIY TFLEOP.APH —PF.R PRESS ASSOCIATION. FURTIIEH DRIVES. CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 6. The search for the ltodios of tho ! three mon killed in tlio Rake Coleridge disaster is being kept up unceasingly, and the- new drive is expected to lie completed to-night. “\Ve have got about another fifteen feet to go before we can get to McDonald's body.’’ said Mr das. Behan (the loader of the party), this afternoon . Croon's body, he said, would be hardest to find, as they did not know exactly where he was working. Mr Behan said that McDonald's body would he got out before a start was made with cross drives leading to tlio other two. Green's body would he brought out next, then MacFarlanc’s. It would he too dangerous to work on three cross drives at the same time, as the roof might fall in and entomb tho men. There were about 12 men working to a shift, hut only one at a limo could work at the face.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1925, Page 3
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