LEAP FOR LIFE
TRUCK FALLS 200 FEET MILLHAND’S lucky escape
(From Our Own Correspondent.) TAIHAPE, Thursday. Two mill hands, Messrs. W. McGregor and James Cartier, had a miraculous escape from death when they managed to jump clear from a log truck just before it went crashing 200 feet into a gully below. rpHE two men, who were employed "*■ by the Otaihape Timber Company, were riding on a truck which was conveying logs to the mill. While crossing a bridge over a gully 200 feet deep, the undercarriage of the truck broke, and the truck and logs went crashing to the foot of the gully, where they were smashed to matchwood. The accident happened at a very dangerous bend in the bush line, and the men had very little warning of what was going to occur, but immediately they felt the truck leaving the line they threw themselves to one side, just as the truck and logs went crashing and roaring to the bottom of the gully 200 feet below. In their fall they received - minor body and facial injuries, and were also suffering greatly from shock. After medical attention they were able to resume duty the next day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 1
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198LEAP FOR LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 1
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