HUNDREDS KILLED BY FALL OF WALL IN CAPE VERDE ISLAND

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1949, Page 4

HUNDREDS KILLED BY FALL OF WALL IN CAPE VERDE ISLAND

(Rec. 9.30) LONDON, Feb. 21 Several hundred beggars, who had assembled to receive food from the Government, were killed when a wall collapsed on them according to reports from Cidade Dapraia, in the Cape Verde Islands, says the Associated Press Lisbon correspondent. More than 360 bodies have already been recovered from under the wall. Bus Passenger 9 s Fall Into Takaka River Proves Fatal p.A. NELSON, Feb. 21 Two men, who alighted from a service car on the road between Upper Takaka and the Cobb Power Station last night stepped over the edge of the road in the darkness. Scrub, 30 feet below, stopped the fall of one man, but the other fell into the river, 200 feet below, and he was killed. The victim of tiie accident was Jack Lonflhurst, aged about 55 years, a Ministry of Works employee, engaged in the construction of the

Cobb dam. , The other man, who was rescued, suffering only a few abrasions, was Peter Robinson, a Ministry of Works employee. „ , . ... The deceased’s next-of-km reside in Karori, Wellington. The body of Longhurst was recovered this morning from the Takaka River about 50 yards downstream from where the accident happened.