SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN KILLED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, This day. By a landslip in a tunnel on the Wel-lington-Johnstonville section of the Welling! on-Mannwatn railway two men named John Enwright and Thomas 0 Malloy were killed. The overseer of the works, John Scanlon, was also buried, but was saved. Particulars have not yet reached town. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Following are particulars of the accident this morning ; The men were at work at 8.20, and Enwright and O’Malley were engaged in the side tunnel filling a dray, when suddenly a slip occurred along the smooth face above the men, who were completely buried. A gang of men set to work to extricate them, but it was fully threequarters of an hour before this was accomplished, and the unfortunate men were quite dead, their bodies being fearfully mutilated ,and their arins and legs broken in several places. O'Malley, who is aged abont 25,’ is a single man, and a recent arrival from London by the ship Oxford. Enwright is also a single man aged 30. An inquest will be held.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1106, 31 October 1883, Page 2
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178SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1106, 31 October 1883, Page 2
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