BURIED FOR FOURTEEN HOURS.
COVERED WITH HUNDREDS
0F TONS.
'A labourer, named Weltfon, had a terrible experience, "at Seaton Car«w Iron Works, England, recently. Ho was buried for fourteen hours under hundreds of tons of masonry and iron ore. He was working in an almost empty depot, when the wall dividing it from a full depot gave way, wall and iron ore burying him. By a miracle the mawrary formed and shaped a. cavity, in which he was huddled up, and over which tons of material was pfled. After fourteen hours' work a (rescue ;waa effected.- ' , -.■ ,v;
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7087, 1 May 1901, Page 2
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97BURIED FOR FOURTEEN HOURS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7087, 1 May 1901, Page 2
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