Families of men killed in accident are reeling
They had no chance.
Kelvin Mattocks, a big-hearted father of four, and Robert Higgins, a good-natured welder who believed his life was finally looking up, struggled as the water rose around them. But the pipe that burst in the trench they were digging on Dartmouth Street in the South End Friday gushed with such ferocity that the 12-foot dirt walls had begun to cave in.
“I heard them screaming, ‘Help! Help! Help! Help!’” said Steven Smith Jr., a construction worker who happened to be passing during his lunch break. Smith ran to the edge of the trench and saw the water rising above their heads.
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