NEW TUNNEL TRAGEDY
Collapse on N.S.W. - Railway FOURTEEN WORKERS BURIED. (Received January 16, 11.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 16. Three men were killed and eleven were injured when the collapse ° J a new railway tunnel near MuswellBrook, New South Wales, buried them suddenly under tons of earth end debris. , By the light of electric lamps ana flares rescue squads worked desperately to release the men. . It was five hours before the last injured man was extricated, but the bodies of the three dead men were not found till ten hours after the accident .
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Grey River Argus, 17 January 1941, Page 6
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