LAKE COLERIDGE TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 10

LAKE COLERIDGE TRAGEDY.

A SURVIVOR'S COMMENTS. GOING HOME FOR A REST. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHUECH, Tuwday. Looking none the worse for his nerveracking experience in the Lake Coleridge tunnel, Gordon Archer, the younger of the two men who were rescued after being entombed, arrived in Christchnrch to-day on his way to his home in Onehunga. Archer said he was just going home for a rest and he would return to Lake Coleridge as soon as they needed him again. He might be away about a fortnight. Daley, the other survivor, had spent a couple of days in bed since being brought out of the tunnel, and was still at Lake Coleridge. Asked what they were doing at the time of the accident, Archer said he was picking away at the gullet and Daley was just behind him. Everything happened very suddenly. He just had time to see McDonald, who was working on the platform further back, caught in a flash. Daley started to ran out bat he palled him back. " Green was with me at the face every other shift, and it was hard luck that he should have been working on the timbering at the time," said Archer. "Daley usually worked back on the concreting and sometimes stayed at the concrete mixer outside the tunnel. He was unlucky in being at the .face at the time, out was lucky in not being caught." The search for the bodies of the three men who were killed when the fall of earth occux ed in the tunnel is being kept up unceasingly and: the new drive' is expected to be completed to-night.

VICTIM'S BTJMQTTRED FOSTUKE.

DENIAL OF THE REPORT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] CHRISTCHURCE. Tuesday. A rumour that the late Archibald Macfarlane, who lost his life in the Coleridge disaster, was to receive a legacy of £IO,OOO is denied. Both he and McDonald were born in Glasgow.