FALL OF EARTH
TWO MEN BURIED. A FATALITY FEARED. By Cable—Press Associate —Copyright Wellington, i st Night.
A fall of ear Mi occuncu this afternoon at Mirama/. whore reclamation work is being carried out by the Harbor Board.
Two men' were buried, and it is feared one has been killed. A shot had been fired, and after the resulting fall of earth John Wilson and James Phillips had just entered the drive when a second fall took plate, about 500 tons of earth burying both men. Rescue work was immediately commenced, forty men being engaged, though this number had to be reduced to twenty in the evening, it being found impossible to work so many. Work had also to be temporarily suspended owing to the danger of the overhanging cliff.
Wilson was dug out after four hours, and was found to have his right leg badly broken. Ho was taken to the hospital. Up to a late hour to-night f lie rescue party had not readied Phillips, and there is hardly any ground for hoping that he may be got out auve, or that he is alive
now. Both are married men,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 49, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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192FALL OF EARTH Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 49, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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