AUSTRALIAN NEWS
OVERCOME BY ESCAPING GAS TWO REPAIR WORKERS DEAD NEWCASTLE, July 22. (Received July 23, at 0.30 a.m.) Six men who were working, in a pit repairing underground gas mains were overcome this afternoon by escaping gas. Two are dead and the others were taken to hospital in a serious condition. Rescuers were driven back by gas, but managed to lassoo one man, who was hurried to hospital. The others were subsequently carried out by firemen wearing gas masks. Two men were engaged in putting a test pipe into a high-pressure main when gas commenced to escape. Four men who went to their assistance were also overcome by fumes. One of the latter group and one of the two men first in difficulties lost their lives. PHAR LAP’S TRAINER ' ' MELBOURNE, July 22. (Received July 22, at 11.55 p.m.) Phar Lap’s trainer, H. Telford, owing to ill-health, has given instructions for the disposal of all his thoroughbred mares and foals.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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