MINIM FATALITY
DUE TO FALL OF DEBRIS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GEEYMOUTH, February 26. A fall of debris due to heavy rain at the mouth of the Blackwater Mine tunnel yesterday buried Cyril Sewell, aged 32, single, a native of Eeefton. The body was extricated three hours later, when life was found to be extinct. The deceased was a relieving brakeman. The fatality occurred when the day's last rake of trucks was coming out. Sewell leaves a mother and sister. The horse was also buried, but was rescued.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 48, 27 February 1933, Page 8
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87MINIM FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 48, 27 February 1933, Page 8
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