ONLY ONE FATALITY.
jf The Otira tunnel work has (| |J been remarkably free from seri- <$> X out mishaps. In May, Iff}o, at # jjj a point where the arch, of the @ j£ tunnel was in weak country with- <? 5j in SO feet of the surface, there <S? $ was a fall of earth that Mled •% £) one man and injured several s. others. By the same fall, two s. j|) men,.free and unhurt, were im-K j| -prisoned for- four days in the S (S) bottom heading. Food and >! (8 clothes were passed to thevi. js) through an air main, while their % ® mates outside put up records in % & driving an adit through which % <|) to rescue them. 5!
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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113ONLY ONE FATALITY. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 9
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