ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
Ap extraordinary escape from a serious accident happened at Kinohakn on Monday last (states the ‘Kawhia Settlor’), when a man named Monaghan, employed on Dir. F. Eshelby’s contract, sustained severe injuries. It appears that he was levering out some large bouleds 130 ft. from the floor of,a 200 ft. metal quarry. Falling backwards, the unfortunate man dropped upon his head on a rock projecting 40ft. below where he had been workin g ricochetted a like distance on to his back, and rolled down the balance of the face to the ground. Dr. C. Campbell Jenkins was summoned, and found that no bones were broken, but that be was bruised practically all over the body.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 2
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116ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 2
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