ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
MACURTON MINE DISASTER. TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED, SEVENTY MEN STILT, ENTOMBED. United Preps Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received -Maroll '22. 1, 15 p.m.) VANCOUVER, .March 21. Twenty bodies were recovered from the Macui'ton Mine, blackened beyond recognition. It is now certain that twenty-five escaped but seventy still are unaccounted for. Rescue parties exploring the interior are making ghastly discoveries of bodies in all directions. [Pbr Pbbss Association.] REEK TON", March 22. A contractor named C. E. Dunphy committed suicide at Big River this morning by cutting his throat. No further particulars are to hand. GORE, March 22. Charles Byron, a young man employed on a ballast, train in tho railway yards, was caught between two trucks at 8.30 a.m. this morning. His thigh was crushed, but there wore no bones broken.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10417, 22 March 1912, Page 3
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