HOMER TUNNEL
ANOTHER AVALANCHE TWO MEN KILLED; THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED [By Telegraph—Press Association] INVERCARGILL. This Day. The Lumsden police received word shortly before noon that an avalanche came down over the mouth of the Homer Tunnel on the Milford Sound Highway at 9.50 this morning, as a result of which the engineer-in-chief, Mr D. F. Hulse, formerly at Waitaki, and the overseer in charge of the tunnel operation, Mr S. T. W. Smith were killed, and three seriously injured, J. S. Lloyd, J. Milne, and L. S. Kelly. It was snowing heavily and there were thirteen inches of snow in the valley. No warning was possible. A doctor is proceeding to the scene of the tragedy, also police.
The bodies of the men killed have been recovered and arrangements are being made to bring the injured to hospital at Invercargill. The scene of the tragedy is the same as on a previous occasion, when an avalanche killed one man and injured seven.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1937, Page 6
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