TUNNEL TRAGEDY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 6

TUNNEL TRAGEDY

AVALANCHE VICTIMS Rider Returned At Inquest Press Association —Copyright. Invercargill, May 31. A finding that Donald Frederic Hulse and Thomas William Smith died at Homer on May 4 from injuries received when the office in which they were working was struck by a gale of wind and an avalanche of snow and was demolished was recorded by the jury at an inquest at Lumsden to-day into the deaths of the victims of the recent avalanche at the Homer tunnel. The following rider was added: “It is regrettable that the rider returned touching the death of Percy Leigh Overton, who met his death at Homer on July 6, 1936, under similar circumstandees was not adhered to. inasmuch as work was not suspended when visibility was bad. We further add and recommend that in no future occasions under similar circumstances, no matter in what month of the year, should work be carried on at the risk of human life. If, while men are working, it is foupd that through bad visibility in the vicinity of the tunnel a look out is of no practical use the work should be immediately suspended.”