SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
FALL OP EARTH BURIES TWO MEN. ONE DUG OUT ALIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 6. A fall of earth occurred this afternoon at Miramar, where reclamation work is being carried out by the Wellington Harbour Board. Two men were buried, and it is feared one has been killed. A blasting shot had been fired, and after the resulting fall, John Wilson and James Phillips had just entered the drive when a second fall took place. About 500 tons of earth fell, burying both men. Rescue work was immediately commenced, forty men being engaged, though this number had to be reduced to twenty m the evening, it being f Dund impossible t'a work so many men together. Work had also to be temporarily suspended, owing to the danger from an overhanging cliff. Wilsm was dug out after four hours, and was found to have his right leg badly broken. He was taken to the Hospital. Up to a late hour to-night the rescue party had not reached Phillips, and there is hardly any ground for hoping that he may be got out alive, or that he is alive now. Both men were married.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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195SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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