SHOCKING BLASTING ACCIDENT.
j WESTPORT, September 21. I; Timothy Corby, contractor, and Thomas • Lowe, employee, were destroyed by a blast on the railway construction works in the Buller Gorge about midday to-day. A search for the bodies failed to bring any other trace than mere fragments on the rocks and trees on the river bank. | On© eye witness said that he saw a coated body, believed to be Corby, fly through the air and descend into the [river.° Nothing was seen of the other man. At the time the accident occurred the < men were engaged in connecting up a ■ slow to a rapid fuse. Apparently the gelignite in the ore out of four holes prepared, or in course of preparation went off. Some 30 tons of stone were disi lodged. Mr Corby was one of the best known , men in the district, being a member of *the Buller County Council for years, and for some time its chairman. He was a member of the Westport Harbour Board, iand the Buller Hospital Board, and of various other public bodies. With Mr Foster, he had only recently accepted a contract oat the harbour works at Motueka for a sum totalliniq; close on £20,000. He leaves a widow and six of a family. I/O wo was a single man, a native of Allendale, Victoria,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3002, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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221SHOCKING BLASTING ACCIDENT. Otago Witness, Issue 3002, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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