Communication established with entombed men.
Caption: Communication established with entombed men. Pipes driven through the earthfall enabled the rescuers to keep in touch with Archer and Daly. Air was pumped through the small one (left), and food passed through the larger pipe. The smaller one underneath struck wood on the way, and so could not be used.
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. 28
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