FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT A SAW MILL.
♦ TiMAHTJ, April 25. This morning a lad named George. CrulKck, about thirteen years of age, working at Brace's Sawmills, met with a frightful —and which has since resulted in a fatal—accident. It appears that the boy was helping a planer named James Ellis, at the planing machine in the mill, and they had occasion to go below to mend the lacing of the belt which, was attaehed io the main shaft. The boy was holding the belt whilst his mate wa3 lacing it. By some means or another he got entangled in the main shaft, and was hurled round and round with considerable force. The floor oi the mill being only about two or three feet above, the shaft, [both his arms were torn off just below the Bhoulder socket, and his legs were severely crushed. : On the doctor proceeding to the scene of • the accident, he saw what a hopeless case : he had to deal with, and had the sufferer I taken immediately to the hospital, where s '■ he was handed over to Dr. Hogg, the resir dent surgeon, Dr. Williams remaining with : him for an hour.,., Drs. Hammond and t Lovegrove were also quicklyat the hospital, I and remained with him. a considerable - time,' and Dr,., M<lntyre followed. after. • Despite every attention, however, jhe lad 'died about one o'clock this afteingon, ,
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 944, 26 April 1879, Page 2
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229FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT A SAW MILL. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 944, 26 April 1879, Page 2
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