ACCIDENTS ft FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, 25 April 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS ft FATALITIES.

i[Pn Pem« Association.] Wanganui, April 24. A serious accident occurred in the dense bush at Riiorikia, 30 miles from Wanganui, yesterday morning. A man, ; James Pettigrew, aged 23, was felling a “drive.” The last tree spun on its stump and fell, pinning Pettigrew to the ground and crushing his leg to a pulp. His mates extricated him, and nine men carried the sufferer on an improvised stretcher, for eight miles through dense bush and over rough and precipitous tracks. Medical attention was secured, and the sufferer was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital at 11.30 p.m., 14J hours after the accident. The leg was amputated below the knee this morning. Auckland, April 24. To-day Mr C. Cutten, S.M., resumed taking evidence in the, inquest concerning the death of a railway ganger named McFrederick. A motor car driven by Joseph Benson, and containing Samuel McFrederick, Frank Porter, Myrtle Brott and Ellen Edenborough, met with an accident. McFrederick was dead when released from under the car. The others were more or less injured, the ladies getting off most Tightly of the party. Benson, driver of the car, is still in the hospital, and was unable to be present at the inquest. The Coroper said there was nothing to show that anyone was to blame for tho occurrence. He found that the cause of death was'injuries received in a motor-car accident, the cause being the bursting of a tyre, which caused the car to overturn.