MINE TRAGEDY
CHILD'S SCALP TORN FROM HER HEAD. i Mt Isa (Queensland), Sat. An ambulance ofiicer to-day searched among the shafts and smelting machinery of Mt. Isa mine foij a longhaired child's scalp, while doctors in j hospital fought for the life of its owner, Mavis Wilson, aged 13. Mavis was being shown through the mine when, as she was walldng under a revolving shaft, h'er long hair hecame entwined in the shafting. The girl was whirled around several times and then flung on to theconcrete floor, with her scalp', from j the right oyebrow to the back of the neck, completely torn off. First-aid was administered, and she was then rushed to the mines hospital, where transfusions of blood were immediately given. When the hospital doctors saw the' state of the child's head, they sent an ambulance man back to the works to search for the scalp. H'e found it, in two pieces, on the shafting, but, although attempts may be made to regraffc it, little hope is held out for the girl's recovery. Mavis was the daughter of Mr. Wilson, of Camooweal, and she and [ two school friends had come 130 miles with their teacher, Mr. Norman Riley, ! to see through the mines.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 3
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205MINE TRAGEDY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 3
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