BOYS KILLED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 416, 24 April 1937, Page 6

BOYS KILLED

I FATE OF BROTHERS. ; Struck By Big Tree. j Press Association —Copyright. Wh.an.gai’ e i Apr i 1 24. When a pin? tree crashed du ’to a hut in which th?y were sleeping last night, two boys at Riaugiahua were killed. - They ' Vere Mftrdosk Ogle, aged 11. and Walter Ogle, aged 13, sous of Mr. Jo&-ph Ogle, ot Ran* giah.ua. The boys were sleeping in a hut ’.bout three-quarters of a chain from the house in which the other members of the family were sleeping. When the father went to call them it six o’clock this morning he found .’hat a big pine tree, 35ft in length and with a girth of 14ft, had been blown down and had smashed the hut to pieces. The tree had struck the boys’ double bed lengthwise and Mr. Ogle had. to cut away remnants of the building in order to extridate ths bodies. The boys were both dead. They had suffered (terrible injuries and their bodies were black with bruises.