SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
AN ENGINE CUTS A MAN’S HANDS OFF. A BRAVE ..FIREMAN, [per press association.] BLENHEIM, This day. i The afternoon train yesterday brought up a man named Chas. Cook, of Para, to Blenheim Hospital, who had had both hands cut off on the railway. It appears that the afternoon train from Picton just turned one of the curves on the line between Para and Tuamarina, when the engine-driver perceived a man lying full length across the rails. He at once put on the brakes, but perceiving that tbe train could not be brought to a standstill before the spot where the man lay was reached, the fireman (Wm Hunter) jumped from -the eugino and ran along the line just ahead of the engine, and at great personal risk succeeded in dragging the man’s body clear of the rails but was unable to pull him sufficiently; clear before the engine came up and completely severed one hand at the wrist and cut thg other hand right across the palm below the thumb to the third finger. The unfortu-
nate man was placed in the : train and conveyed to the hospital here. The sufferer’s name ie Charles Cook, a millhand at Para. His right arm has bean amputated below the elbow, but it is hoped to save two fingers of the other hand. The man had been drinking and had fallen asleep.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1030, 4 May 1883, Page 3
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