Shocking Occurrence
I [bkutkbs tkleobams.] MeLßovßNE,September 22. A fatal accident happened on Tuesday in the bush near Sarsfield. A man named Young was engaged by himself with a team of bullocks in getting logs for sawmills. He had two heavy logs on the dray when getting bogged, hs unyoked ton bullocks to pull one log off the dray. The log fell off suddenly, and, striking him on the legs, broke his right leg in two places, and his left leg above the ankle He cooeyed for a long time but no one was near and he managed to crawl along, and by almost superhuman efforts he got on to the shaft of the dray and managed to drive the bullocks towards the sawmill, near which his mate met him. He had lost a good deal of blood and had only sufficient strength 'left to state what had happened to him. He was placed on a sheet of bark and brought into Bairstall during the night, but he died almost immediately afterwards.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 2
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