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 The tips were
always to be seen, a build up of water pressure under the tip had
exploded causing an avalanche of mud and slurry.
As the men watched, water rose into the depression, formed itself
into a lethal tidal wave of slurry and roared down the hillside,
gathering speed and height until it was 30ft high and destroying
everything in its path.
… I told him [Vivian Thomas] what I told him before, that the tip
was sinking pretty bad and what were they going to do about it. … He
told me to go up to the tip, take a burner with me, and get the
crane back as far as I could for we were to start another tipping
site later on in the week. …
When you got to the front of the tip, did you see how far it had
sunk?] I should say about 18 to 20 ft. … [The crane rails] had
broken off and fell down into the hole. … I told the boys that we
would get the rails up from there and start and put the crane back.
I said before we start we have a cup of tea, and we went back into
the shack. We were not there five minutes
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