GASSED IN SILO
HOMELAND RURAL TRAGEDY
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LONDON, June 14. An unprecedented tragedy occurred to T. Crofts, a farmer, and George Jackson and Ernest Brain, labourers, who were asphyxiated by carbonic acid gas in a silo at Stretton. Jackson and Brain entered the Silo, and a few moments later a farm hand heard shouting, and he ascended the ladder, when he saw the men gassed. He called Crofts, who entered the silo, and when rescuers arrived all three men were head.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1930, Page 7
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