A STARTLING ACCIDENT
FIVE WALLS COLLAPSE. ~,' THREE MEN, HURT. ~3051 By Telegraph—Press Association. • Dunedin, Last' Night. A stnrtling accident occurred, at the corporation gasworks this afternoon. Four men were working on the top of a 10ft brick wall, which was being erect* ed in connection with extensions to the neve .retort house. They were engaged in striking the centre of the arch joining two of a series of seven briek woTls. The operations evidently disturbed the stone-wall, and the arch crumbled audi i the whole wall collapsed. The falling de- | foris struck the adjoining wall;' aad in thta manner five walls 20ft. high and 2ftft, long were demolished, one after the other. One of the men foresaw the danger, and stepped on to the outside wall, which » remained standing, but the other three were precipitated to. the ground. One, John Dryden. was evidently struck on the head with a brick, and was removed - to the hospital. His condition is grave. The other two men escaped with minor injuries.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 5
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168A STARTLING ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 5
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