A LAND SLIDE.
MANY WORKMEN BURIED. TWENTY PERISH. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received July 4, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 3. A land slide in a deep trench at the new lock at Alexandra Dock extension works at Newport, in Monmouth, buried many workmen. It is estimated that twenty perished. Others were extricated alive from under angles by the fallen timber.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 5
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62A LAND SLIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 5
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