SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
. EXPLOSION OF GLEGNITE. (By Telegraph.—Prers Association.) Westport, September 21. A search for the bodies of Timothy Ccrby, contractor, and Thomas Low, employee, who were killed by a blast on tho railway construction work.? in the Bullcr Gorge about mid-day to-day, failed to find much trace. One eye-witness stated that ho saw a coated body (believed to be that of Corby) fly through tho air and descend into tho river. Nothing was seen of tho other. At the time that the accident occurred tho men were engaged in connecting up a slow (t> a rapid fuse. Apparently the gelignite in one out of Hie four holes prepared, or in course of preparation, went off, some 30 t'ons of stone being dislodged. Mr. Corby was one of the best-known men in the district, being a member of the Buller County Council for four years, and for some time its chairman. He was also ,i member of the Westport Harbour Board and Buller Hospital Board, and of various other public bodies. In connection with Mr. Foster ho had only recently accepted a crmlract on tho harbour works at iMotuckn for a sum totalUnit clo?e on ,£20,000. Ho leaves a widow and a family of six.
Low was a single man and a nativo of AllendaAc, Victoria.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 22 September 1911, Page 7
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215SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 22 September 1911, Page 7
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