A DISTRESSING FATALITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1564, 21 September 1905, Page 2

A DISTRESSING FATALITY.

The Auokiand Herald gives the following further particulars of the fatality in Whangarei district on Friday: A most distressing fatality occurred at

Matapouri yesterday, the victim being a young man named Charles Fraser Ferguson (aged 23), a brother-in-law of Mr Aspden, of Matapouri. At the time of the accident, about two o'clock in the afternoon, Ferguson was lowering a totara pilo down a steep incline with a thin wire rope, wbioh passed under a root and was ooiled two or throe times around a stump. As the log neared the bottom of the Blope the strain on Ferguson became tco strong, and he eased bis hold of the wire, and is is thought that his legs got entangled in the rope. On the log reaching its destination Fersoa’s mates oalled out, but getting no response, they climed to the top of the slope, where a sickening sight mot their I eyes. Both Ferguson's legs had been out ! off, one at the kooe joint, the other just below it, but the uufortunnts man was conscious, and able to explain how it happened. Ferguson was conveyed to the reßidonoo of Mr Monroe, and Dr Hall, who was at once sect for, rode out, reaohiDg Matapouri about seven o’clock. However, in spite oi all that human aid oould do, Ferguson died from shook about U o’olook,