FATAL BUSH ACCIDENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 333, 1 February 1911, Page 5

FATAL BUSH ACCIDENT.

[|lY TKI.KCTt AI'II. I'RKSS ASSOCIATION'.] Blemheim, This Day. The inquest on the victims of the Nydia Bay fatality on Saturday showed that the engine was bringing several log trucks from the bush, when about three-quarters of a miie from the mill on the level road, the locomotive ran off the line and crashed into a big stump a few feet away. Coupled to the locomotive was a tender with a 400 gallon tank and next two trucks carrying logs. When the engine struck the stump the imnetus caused the log on the first truck to plunge forward, and it struck the tank with such terrific force as to c umpie it up. Anderson and O'Brien, who were in the tender, were hurled against the boiler, the valves of which snapped off, allowing such a volume of steam to escape that the two were almost par-boiled. Corliss, the third victim, was thrown clear of the wreck, but when picked up it was seen he could not recover. He received two compound fractures of the right leg and the whole of the left side of his chest was crushed in. Anderson's injuries were a compound fracture of the left arm, and a fractured skull, the whole of the back of his head being crushed in. O'Brien received a dread£ul wound in the throat and a fractured jaw and broken neck. The engine was running about five or six miles an hour at the time of the disaster. The inquest was adjourned till Birss and Climo were sufficiently recovered to give testimony.