THE WESTPORT EXPLOSION.

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1911, Page 6

THE WESTPORT EXPLOSION.

TWO MEN KILLED

(Per Press Association)

WEST/PORT, Sent. 21

A search for the bodies of Timothy Corby, contractor, and Thomas Low, employee, who were destroyed !by a blast on th.i railway construction works in the Buller Gorge- about midday to-day failed to brins 1 any other trace than mere fragments on the nocks and tree.s on the rive:r-bank. One eye witness stated that ho saw a coated body, believed to be Corby's fly through the air and descend into the river. Nothing was seeji of the other. At th>? time- the accident occurred tha men. we:w engaged in' connecting up a slow to rapid fuse. Apparently the gelignite in one, out of four holes prepared, or in course of preparation, wont off, some thirty tons of stone being dislodged. Mr. Coriby was on,? of the best known! men in the vicinity, boing a member of tho Bul'lsr County Council for years, and for some time its chairman, member of the Westport Harbour Board, and Buller Hospital Board, and of various other public bodies. With M:\. Foster he Had only recently accepted a contract on the-, harbour works at Motuoka for a sum totalling on £20,000. lie leaves a widow and six of a family. Low was a single man, iTativq ofAllsndale, Victoria.