ACCIDENT AT MAKING.
;A painful accident happened on .Safcurh : ■■ . jxlay afternoon last, to a 007 named Charles I Clarke, between 15 and It 3 years of age, Residing at Makinp.. The young .fellpv? 1 was engaged in fulfilling a contract for cutting firewood on one of the sections i along the. MJalwiuo ltoad. >.Wh% istandjn*. j on a log, and in the act of "chopping it in [! two, he lost his footing and, jell,. the.; edge • < I of his axe, which was rather sharp, com- ; inp down w-itii. [considerable ''fdtfee" on to the top of his left foot, which, was all but severed-^nr,<jwoi He; had the .-plirck/ ;fco> mount his horse and ride home, bis foot^ bleeding profusely ftll; ith;e>tinie. When his boot, with difficulty was taken off, ■ the poor lad's ioe^j.^srirLy.^droppe^ down .'ifr<j>m the other part of his foot, theartere^ and sinews being entirely severed. Dr Dowd was senf^of/'wnVstftc^e'tf tap the ghastly wound, and we are clad to hear the unfortunate' sufferer iS" going 'on as favorably ,«s\.can .be, ;expected^ ( al^oii§li it must be some months before he can have the use of his foot- -again. It is -i misfortune to the family, as the boy's earnrn'gs Virider present circunistandei can bo ill-spared. .
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 August 1882, Page 2
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204ACCIDENT AT MAKING. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 August 1882, Page 2
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