BURIED IN SAND
BOYS' NARROW ESCAPE
After feverish digging .by 20 men, Leslie Carr, aged 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Carr, Bright Street, Cobdeni and George Williams, aged 12, living in Fox Street, Cobdeh, were saved from death by suffocation by a narrow margin, states a Greymouthcorrespondent.
When playing in a vacant section at Cobden the boys entered a sand tunnel 10ft long and 6ft deep, which collapsed, burying them both. Help was called by companions and both were rescued alive. .•■'.■■•. . •"'. ■■-' .■■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 26, 30 July 1938, Page 25
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83BURIED IN SAND Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 26, 30 July 1938, Page 25
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