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THREE LIVES FEARED LOST
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this dnv at 8 a.m.l
MELBOURNE, June 23.
Five rimen employed in a deep water tunenl leading to Silvan reservoir were overwhelmed by a fall of earth. Two were rescued but the other three—Walter Crosby, Frederick Scales, and Bert Walsh are probably dead. Com.rakl.es were (working in feverish haste for hours .trying to reach them, but little hope is entertained of their being alive.
ONE BODY RECOVERED. MELBOURNE, June 24. The three men buried in the tunnel are dead. Scales’s body has been recovered, but the rescuers failed to reach the other two.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 5
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102ENTOMBED Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 5
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