CAUGHT BY A PULLEY SHAFT.
YOUTHS NARROW ESCAPE.
“I’M QUITE ALL BIGHT,”
The Auckland Herald’s Taumarunui correspondent reports a wonderfully narrow escape from death in Winger and Smith s mill at Taumarunui. Stanley Winger, son of one of the proprietors, was adjusting a. pulley on a shaft when it caught his shirt mid tore it to pieces up to his armpits. The garment then held like a rope, and the young man was whirled round and round the shaft, every part of his body being cut and brpieed. His father, who was sitting in the office, heard a shou!, and on running out saw the boy revolving rapidly. The engine-driver immediately shut off steam, hut us this would not have stopped tiie machine at once, the henchman iyith splendid presence of • mind thrust a j 0 w iuh} the circular saw, and this acted liko a powerful brake, and brought the wheels to a standstill.- The youth was cut away from the entanglement, ap,d ,on gain ing his feet said cheerfully: "I’m quite all right.” Had there been any obstacle to yjtnkis against whilst he was whirled round, ijie iy.ould inevitably have been killed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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194CAUGHT BY A PULLEY SHAFT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1082, 5 April 1913, Page 4
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