BOY BURIED IN SAND

Shannon News, 9 November 1926, Page 3

BOY BURIED IN SAND

A TIMELY DISCOVERY. While playing alone. on the littlefrequented sands to the east of the River Lossie, at Lossiemouth, Scotland, recently, Ronald Mackenzie, aged 13, Avas buried head first when the sides of a deep hole he had dug caved in on him. At the time there were not half-a-dozen persons within miles of this spot, and his plight w'as accidentally discovered by Retta Boyd, a Glasgow visitor, aged 10, who chanced to knock a golf ball in the direction of the sandhole. Noticing a pair of boots protruding from the side of the hole, the, girl gave one of them a pull and to her astonishment found that there v/as a foot inside. She called her brother, aged 16, who realised® that without aid they could not .hope to extricate Mackenzie. They w'ere able, how'ever, to attract the attention of two men, A\ r ho succeeded in digging out the buried boy with his own spade. Life appeared to be extinct, but after ai-tificial respiration had been applied he recovered consciousness and Avas remoA r cd to his home.