A NARROW ESCAPE

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 November 1914, Page 5

A NARROW ESCAPE

Mr D. Stewart, meeting Mr Alex. Hunter on Thursday at about 6 p.m., inquired if he had seen his man (Mr John Sproston) about, and, having received an answer in the negative, said he was rather anxious, as Sproston (who was carting fire-wood) should be home. With this, Mr Hunter rode over to Stewart's ranges, and found Sproston iv a gully with a dray-load of firewood turned over and the shafts of the dray on top of him. He was completely pinned by the legs. Hunter immediately went off for assistance and Dr Meinhold, who were soon in attendance. It took six men to extracate the unfortrnate fellow from his position, when the doctor found he was suffering from severe bruises about the legs. Sproston was then carried to his home in Helensville, a distance of about two miles, and may be expected to be about again in a couple of weeks' time. The poor fellow had< been pinned underneath that dray-load of firewood for three hours and a-half, and had it not been for Mr Alex. Hunter there is no doubt the man would have been found dead in the morning, as the horses were becoming very restless when found, and could easily have knocked the man's brains out.