FATAL ACCIDENT IN A TUNNEL. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Yesterday.
By t\ land slip that took place this morning in the tunnel on the Wellington-John&onville section Wellington-Manawatu lailway, two men named John Enright and Thomas O'Malley were killed. The overseer of the works, John Scanlon, was also buried, but was saved. Tlie men were at work at 8.20, .and Enright and O'Malley were engaged inside the tunnel filling a dray, when suddenly a slip occm red along the south face above the men, who were completely buried. A gang of men set to work to extricate them, but it was fully three-qu<u'ter» of an hour befoie this was accomplished, and the unfortunate men were quite dead, their bodies being fe.u fully mutilated and then arum and leg* broken in several places. O'Malley, who was aged 25, wa*> a single m.vn and a lecent anival fiom London by the .ship Oxford ; Enright was also a single man, aged 20. An inquest will be held.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1767, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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164FATAL ACCIDENT IN A TUNNEL. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Yesterday. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1767, 1 November 1883, Page 2
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