ENTOMBED MEN
ONE LOSES HIS LIFE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTIXCJft, Lnst Night. James Symes, a siiitilt' man. aged about 40. was entombed by .a I'ali o!' earth on the borough drainage work.*tliis afternoon. Deceased, who w;ra layer, was working in f , trench at a depth of lift, when the side cave'.! in, and he was buried by about a toi? of earth. The body was recovered); tvyo hours later. life being extinct "Walter Frederick Lambert, who wa« working on the j'urface when it collapsed, was buried to the shoulders. He seized a plank of supporting timber, which prevented him from being completely submerged. Lambert wa-■ not seriously injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5
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108ENTOMBED MEN Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5
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