FALL OF EARTH.
MEN OVERWHELMED. THREE LIVES LOST. MELBOURNE, Monday. Five men employed in a water tunnel leading to the Silvan reservoir were overwhelmed by a fall of earth. Two were rescued, but the other three, Walter Crosby, Frederick Scales and Bert Walsh, are probably dead. Their comrades have been working with feverish haste for hours trying to reach them, but little hope is entertained of their being alive.
ONE BODY RECOVERED. (Received Tuesday, 9.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The three men buried in the tunnel are dead. Scales’ body has been recovered, but the rescuers have failed to reach the other two.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 June 1930, Page 5
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