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'Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] A QI'ARBY TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. Nov. 2(5. All accident at Phillip’s stone qnar*y at Bankslown. resulted in two men being killed outright, and three others so severely injured that tliev will probably succumb. The sou of the quarry owner was ramming a charge, when a terrific explosion occurred. Claude Burton and Jack Wliyiioii, Uith of I.idcombo. were blown fifty feel in the air. their bodies iming horribly mutilated. Those* injured are: Morgan Jones, of Cahramat ta : Allan Phillips, nt Bankstown ; and Arhtur O’Brien, address unknown. They are sllflerittg from broken limbs, and hardly a portion of their faces is undamaged. Ambulance men describe the spectacle as tbe worst they have ever seen. PHILLIPS SUCCUMBS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.'' SYDNEY. Nov. 27. In the quarry ue-ident Phillips suc- ■ iimhed to hi- injuries an hour after ■idmissicn to tin* ho.-pitat. pensions FOR WIDOWS. SYDNEY. Nov. 27. The Assembly read a first time the Widow- Pensions Bill, which provides that a widow with one or re depcnlent children shall receive one pound .telling weekly and ten shillings wcek’v for each child under the age of fourteen year-. QUARRY DISASTER. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. SYDNEY. November 27. The force of the explosion in the Bankstown quarry was so terrific that the victims’ bodies were found thirty feet from the edge of the quarry. T lie explosion shifted two hundred tons of stone and the men received the force of it. The* victims are shockingly mutiliated. Two of those injured are not expect'd to recover. O’Brien has been identified as a resilent of l.idcomhe. The accident occurred a few minutes before work would end for the day. The opinion is that the men were ramming home a charge of gelignite .vlien it exploded. • PRODUCE PRICES. MELBOURNE. Nov. 27. Wheat (is ltd, January (is Id; sellers asking to fis :id. Oats (milling) Is Jd. feed -Is: I.alley ."s Id on the wharf at Melbourne*. Potatoes £lO to Cl‘2 15s Id.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1925, Page 3
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