SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 4213, 28 August 1876, Page 2

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

<l On Friday afternoon deatfrput ah end to* the fearful sufferings of John M'Murtrie, the accident to whom (at Meek's flour null '■■'■' at Oamaru) was -briefly recorded- in jour telegraphic columns that day. The 'NI 0. Times Ogives these additional particulars| —1 At/about,6 a.ia. the night shift liad been relieved, machinery and the miff" again started/ when 'M'Murtrie. jujho jwas employed as oatmeal miller, went inbetween two pairs of Btohes.for-sQ^epnrpdse. L 6r otherand a knitted woollen jacket which he wore /booming entangled by an upright shafting, he was lifted up b/ the machinery and grievously crushed; -The mill was almost immediately stopped and cated, when itwasfound that his left fobtamf ancle had been; torn off, both*legs fractured in severalplaces, one of his arms broken in fiyo places, aud several ribs broken, while, also there was a deep lacerated wound on th,e inside of the left thigh. He "internally injured. He was attended by ©rs. Wait and De Lautour, and, by their instructions, removed to the Hospital, where he lingered in great pain till noon, when death put an end to his sufferings. It appears'that there was/rno necessityfor his gorag-tb the Elace where the accident occurred, arid no lame appears to attach to anyone, as the Btones were boxed m, and the machinery had recently been inspected and as properly protected by the Government Inspector. M'Murtrie had a very narrow escape only a few weeks ago, the same knitted jacket having become, on that occasion caught and turned round'some other shafting, and it was only through ,the circuih. Stance that the belt, oh his clinging to it, slipped off the pulley, that he then escaped with his We. M'MurJtrie was a sober, respectable map, of forty-five years of age.