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Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1928, Page 4

RUBIED IN I’l Ll’. LONDON, Jan. 3. Three men were killed last night when a live-ton travelling crane fell, burying them ill a morass of pulp and tangled iron work at the sugar Ixvl factory, a mile oiit-ide Bury, St. Edmunds. Sull'nlk. The crime was unloading pulp oil a dump when the crush occurred. The driver, Cyril Thomas Stiff, aged about

2n. of St. Andrew's street South, ami the fireman. John Scutcher, aged .>O. of King's Road, both Bury St. Edmunds, were imprisoned in the cabin of (be falling era lie. which buried itself deeply in the mass of pulp. The third man. Arthur Crichton, a labourer, of Upper Ihixler-slrcot, Bury St. Edmunds, was si,-Hiding between the crane and the dump and bis body Wits driven into file pulp, leaving only one band visible.

Workmen who rushed- to the scene with picks and shovels found themselves unable to move the broken crane and lo release any of the men. A spare crane at the railway station, a rpiarter of a mile, away, was sent for but it could not be brought nearer than 111 yards. \ wire hawser was attached to the fallen crane but all efforts to lift it failed. Doctors and ambulances tvero compelled to stand by helpless, and early this morning workmen were engaged in trying to reach the men buried in l be pulp. It is believed that the era no was blown over by a gale which was raging.