SILO TRAGEDY
THREE MEN ASPHYXIATED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, 13th June
An unprecedented tragedy occurred to a man named 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 ascended the ladder, when he saw the men "gassed. He called Crofts, who entered the silo, and when rescuers arrived all were dead.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 5
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83SILO TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 5
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