FATAL ACCIDENT.
CmusTCHURCH, Tliis day. At Mr Buchanan's city foundry yesterday John Campbell, a trimmer, was finishing a rough casting by grinding it on an emery stone revolving at a high rate of spend, when a loud report was heard and he was seen to stagger and fall flat on his back. The stone had broken into three or four pieces, two of which struck him. The others travelled in the same line but in tho opposite . direction, and cut a large hole in the wall of the shed. The man died instantaneonsly. Mr Buchanan had oiled part of the machine two, minutes before, and believed that the accident was caused by the casting which was being ground jamming between the wheel and the bar. The wheel was a composition of stone 16 inches in diameter, and weighed about 501b. Deceased leaves a wife and six children.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3918, 9 February 1884, Page 3
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