DOUBLE FATALITY.
FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
MOTHER WITNESSES TRAGEDT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.!
WANGANUI, Tuesday.
A distressing fatality occurred this morning at Kai Iwi beach, whither a large crowd went to participate in a gala. Mr. Clarence Humphreys, aged twenty-six, a resident of Gonville, and his four-ycarold daughter Joan, were at the bottom of a cliff when thirty tons of rock and earth fell and killed them. Mrs. Humphreys, horror stricken, was a witness of the tragedy. Within a few minutes of the accident a large gang of men with picks and shovels was busily engaged in the work of rescue. Some of the rock was heavy and difficult to dislodge. After close on half-an-hour's excavation work the body of Mr. Humphries was recovered and he was quite dead. One leg had been broken and his face and head were terribly injured. A few minutes afterwards the litlc girl's dead body was uncovered. She, too, was killed and very badly crushed.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2 January 1924, Page 3
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