BOY SUFFOCATED.
SAND TUNNEL CAVES IN. - (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, January 12. Buried under a sandbank which collapsed while he was playing at Woolstou this morning, Peter McLqugldan, aged 13, of 62 St. John Street, Woolstou, died shortly after wards. Attempts at resuscitation at the Christchurch Hospital tailed to produce a response. The hoy had been playing with a younger brother in a sandbank at the corner of Dyer’s Road and Bromley Road, and had started making a tunnel under the hank when a section caved in* burying him beneath three to four feet of sand. His brother tried to make an airhole and then went to bring help. The boy’s father and another brother rushed to the scene and got him out, and it was thought then that the boy’s pulse could be felt faintly. He was immediately hurried to tho hospital, but was there found to he beyond help.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 79, 13 January 1940, Page 7
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