ACCIDENT TO SHUNTER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 300, 13 September 1920, Page 4

ACCIDENT TO SHUNTER

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William John Hamblyn, a railway employee, met with a .severe accident at 4..10 p.m. on Saturday while carrying out his duties as a shunter on Glasgow Wharf. It appears that Haniblyn was riding on the cow-catcher of an engine which was pulling a number of coal trucks across the wharf, when by some means he slipped and fell on the rails. W. P. Leviek, a fellow-shunter, who was also riding on the cow-catcher, immediately gave the alarm, and the enginewas promptly brought to a standstill. Meanwhile the front wheels of the engine had passed over the unfortunate man's legs, almost severing his left foot above the ankle, and crushing his right leg just above the knee. Hamblyn, who was found to be still conscious, was rendered first aid on the wharf, and subsequently conv •:! to the Hospital, where it was lon necessary to amputate his left leg iy.-low the knee. The right leg was found to be fractured. Late last night Hamblyn was reported to bo progressing favourably, and was practically out of danger. The injured man is a returned soldier, and is unmarried. He resides at the Soldiers' Hostel. By a strange coincidence one of the nurses who is attending him at the Hospital nursed him in the military hospital at Brockenlmrsfc (England), and one of the Harbour Board [employees who rendered him first aid I once bandaged him up on the battlefield in France.