A TUNNEL FATALITY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 2

A TUNNEL FATALITY

THREE MKS KILLED. Per Press Association. Wellington, I'Vlmnu.v 2.1. By 11 full of earth on .hi' city s dc of n tunnel being bored tliruiigh.Ml. i Victoria to connect Killiirnic mid tin' eastern suburbs by electric trams with Wellington, two, Jiien, .'lined Harry IScimeU and Alfred Harrington, were , killed. A third man, John Eli, mi partially buried, but was protected by u waggon, niid it was thought would lie got out alive. A fi'iiurtli, Frederick t'old'r. dxt.ru tu.-.d himself. I 'l'lie gang went to work late last evening to prepare for the bricklayers, ami it thou.'/ht the accident was due to a sill supporting sojne woodwork being removed too soon. lieimeu \vii> shift boss, and married. His wife is believed to be. in Ausfrallan'ingt'in, a tiinlier man. wm limrried. with one chid living in Wellingllesi'uc work proceeded at Hie scene of the acedeut all night. 'i'l.wards ini.tjiiVlit a third fall of earth occurred, mid .lolui Kli, or Elye, who bad been pinned by tin; fir.-t fuli. anil then further buried by a second, but had been aide to converse with the rescue parly, apparently succumbed, lie had been in great pn'in, but lift"!' the third fall he (lid not speak again, and it is assumed lie win killed by U. His body and the body of Harrington were recovered this morning. .Bennett's bodv has not been recovered yet. Kli, or Eiye, was n single man, about 27 or 28. '

THE ixq.'/kst. Wni.MNuTON, February 21. An inquest concerning tho death of the three men killed in Killiirnic tunnel was opened by tlio District Coroner and adjourned until Monday. Tlie jury mliuiated that they thought it dosirabfc tliat an independent engineer should lie called for his opinion as to the slate of the working. The medical evidence given showed Hint Barrett and Harrington died from suffocation, and Kb from hcutorrlingo from a wound on the head.