Shocking Accident.
TWO MEN KILLED AT AUCKLAND
(Per Prew Association,) , . AUCKLAND, June 20. A shocking accident occurred at the waterworks excavations.at Nihotupu shortly before ■ 10-Vclock this morning by 'which.--two men., named ■ , Hugh Fulton, and William Smythe have no doubt lost' their live* through I a fall ;of earth apd rocks, .'phe. ieoi-' dent too kplace <m No. -12 contract,. 1 at which five men'were working* the two deceased and thine men named Evaqs, Rosier, and 1 Parker.^ . Evans saw a gteftt falV«f .eartjiftnd , rocks bury Fulton,and .Saiyth^.and at once went in to Waikonaitr to mad the news into towtt. t The l.,bodieß have not teeai,_jsefiove^.,^^ : |h^*2_iß ; hardly any doubt that tbemesk ftavjet > been killed. " ■
— ; ■■; ' ■ Later. All| the men. available were at once set to work »to recover^the "bodies, which were unearthed abojrh 4 p.m., unde^ about 200 tons of debris; life of course being extinct.' ' Fujton was the contractor for the section, and came from Kaukapakapa. 1 Smythe, -who was 19 years of - ' age, fcame from Nihotupu. , > ' Fulton was a married man with seven children.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9974, 21 June 1901, Page 1
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