To combat the foul air in the tunnel.
Caption: To combat the foul air in the tunnel. These large pipes were taken into the tunnel in sections, joined together inside, and used to pump bad air out of the ‘cuddy’ where the rescue party was working.
Description: At 6.30 am on Friday 2nd October, five men working in a tunnel under construction in connection with the duplication of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power station were entombed when timber collapsed and several tons of earth fell blocking the tunnel. Two of the five men were rescued alive.
Related information: For an account of the tunnel earth fall and rescue of survivors refer to the article entitled Tunnel tragedy at Coleridge found in The weekly press, 8 October 1925 on p. 37.
Green and Hahn (photographer)
Source: The weekly press, 15 Oct. 1925, p. 29
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