BURIED IN THE SAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

BURIED IN THE SAND.

CHILDREN AT SEASIDE. After building a sand castlo for several feet high on Southend beach, England, two children had a narrow escape from death. They had started to dig a deep moat round the castle, when another boy jumped into the middlo of it and the two children were buried. Luckily soma pier officials happened to be near and were able to dig them out. Had no one been near, the children would have met a worse experience. The danger of deep excavations in the sand at the seaside was emphasised at Sandown, Islo of Wight, when a child ran into a holo about ft. deep. Ino weight of the mother who dashed to the rescue caused (he side of the hole to cgllapse, burying the chdd under about scwt. of . sand. A bathing-machiuo proprietor, working desporately with his hands, succeeded m extricating tho child. Fortunately, its eyes had been protected by tho brim of a straw hat, but its mouth, nose, and ears were filled with sand. At Abei'dovoy, in Merionethshire, , a nine-year-old boy was digging a tunnel in a sandhill. Tho sand collapsed and buried him. He was rescued, but in spite of artificial respiration ho died from suffocation. • . Five little girls playing on a sandbanK at Reighton Gap, near Filey, were surrounded by tho tide and drowned one by one within sight of their mothers, who wero knitting and did not notice until too late that the sea had surrounded 10 bank. Children should be kept from S oin ß near the edge of cliifs or rocks. • appears to be solid ground may be m y overhanging turf, and there is danger that littlo ones will lose their balance and topple .over.