PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
Dunedin, August 12. A man named Samuel Sneddon, aged 62 years, engaged as a labourer on the Mosgiel railway duplication works, was the victim ot a severe accident this morning. He was working with a gang oi men on an embankment at Green Island emptying trucks of clay. As the loaded trucks were running Sneddon attempted to board one by stepping on to the iron bar which runs along the bottom of the truck. His foot slipped, and the wheel went over it, badly crushing it. The foot was subsequently amputated at the hospital. Sueddou lives at St. Kilda.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 878, 13 August 1910, Page 3
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101PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 878, 13 August 1910, Page 3
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