A Terrible Accident.
(Per Press Association^ Auckland. Augu»t 8. Charles Rollands, head ratter in the Kauri Timber Company's employ, while engaged in hauling up logs, sustained a serious accident to-day. In hauling up the losp he neglected to place an iron dog behind one log to secure it, and it carried away, crushing him between two logs, one of which, weighing four tons, fell on him. His legs were terribly mangled, in fact smashed to pieces. His left leg was just hanging together, the bone being ■mashed, while the right leg was nearly cut off. Rollands was able to say before he was removed to the hospital that nobody was to blame, and the accident was due to his own inadvertence to drive the dbg in. Both legs were amputated, but doubts are entertained of his survival. He bore the reputation of being careful and steady. He was formerly a seaman, and has a wife and three children.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1894, Page 3
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