FATAL ACCIDENT AT AUCK LAND.
• (pee united press association.) > Auckiand, October 19. George Duncan, aged IS, and William , Leighton, his cousin, while working at ( brickmaking at Henderson's mill were buried alive by the fall of a bank of earth 14 feet high. Watson Duncan noticed the accident from'a distance, and went and dug where he heard the voice , of Leighton, and got him out alive. j When George Duncan was got out he , was dead, evidently suffocated. The ! bank loosened through the late rains.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 20 October 1882, Page 2
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84FATAL ACCIDENT AT AUCK LAND. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 20 October 1882, Page 2
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