SYDNEY FATALITY.
' THREE MEN SUFFOCATED. BY FALL OF WHEAT’. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, July 18. Whilst loading bulk wheat into the steamer Norfolk last night at Glebe .Island, the wooden bulkhead collapsed, releasing 30 to 40 tons of wheat on top of a number of lumpers in the hatch. After feverish and difficult rescue work several were extricated half smothered, but thrqe were dead, Ernest Lawes, A. Anderson, and W. Downey. The men had completed the inain holds of the Norfolk when the collapse came. Twenty-eight, more or less, were buried in the wheat. Besides the three dead five have been sent to hospital, but are not in a serious condition.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1922, Page 3
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111SYDNEY FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1922, Page 3
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