TWO MEN GASSED
LEAK IN MAIN
(United Preta Association.—Copyright) SYDNEY, 31st May. While endeavouring to locate leaks in gas and water mains at Pymble, New South Wales, which omployees of the Gas Company and Water Board were investigating, John Simmonds, a turncock of tho Water Board, opened a manhole in the street and descended. Immediately the others heard a cry for help. Herbert Sharp, of the-Gas Company, descended in an endeavour to rescue Simmonds. Watchers on top of the shaft # were horrified to see hi_. reel and collapse in about three, feet of water. Six others, also attempted a rescue, but were overcome by fumes, which wore subsequently discovered to be due to gaß escaping fron one of the mains in the same shaft as the water main. The police had great difficulty in recovering the bodies of Simmonds and Sharp, lifting them to trie top of the shaft, which was only nine feet in depth, by means of a long iron bar hooked at tho end.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 9
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