BOYS SUFFOCATED
(Press Assu.-
BURIED BY FALL OF SAND IN TUNNEL DISTRESSXNG FATALITY
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
DUNEDIN, Monday. A distressing fatality oecurred yesterday afternoon, two boys, aged 10 years, William Ross Talboys and Wilham Russell Poulter, being suffoeated under a fall of sand in a vacant seetion at Musselburgh. The boys had excavated a tunnel through a high sand bank, and while the victims erawled through a third boy remained outside. The bank collapsed suddenly, completely burying the boys. Assistanee was seeured, about 20 men digging frantically, but the boys were dead when recovered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 December 1931, Page 5
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