THE ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 481, 18 June 1890, Page 2

THE ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.

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Paeroa, Friday Evening. The injured man, Donnelly, arrived here this; evening, being accompanied by a party of over twenty of the Waihi G. Mining Company’s employees. He will he conveyed by steamer to-morrow to Thames. Tho details of the accident are .as follows : Donnelly was proceeding to his work yesterday tminiing, when being deceived as to where he was walking,by the, smoke from an adjacent kiln, he fell.headlong into an unfinished one, which, being rough ami jagged inside, caused the injuries to be all the more severe. He was picked up a minute or two after the accident and conveyed to the office of the Company, when it was found on examination that one leg was broken near the ankle, there,was a severe cut in the thigh, and the head and face were also much knocked about. Hot fomentations were immediately applied to the leg to prevent swelling until medical assistance could be procure!, which was .not until past midnight, when Dr Cooper arrived, who at once cleaned the gut in the thigh, and stitched it up. The next morning a stretcher was constructed, and about twelve o’clock the party started from Waihi to carry the sufferer on their shoulders to Paeroa en route to Thames Hospital. On ariTiying at tfe; Raliu hill it was deemed advisable to put him on a spring waggon which followed, but on reaching the top of the hill the sufferer complained so of the pain caused by the unavoidable jolting on the rough road that it was decided to carry him the remainder of tl « distance to Paeroa, about five or six miles. During the journey frequent stoppages were made lor the purpose of fomenting the injured limb, hot water being kindly got ready in advance by the settlers. The injured man is not the Donnelly stated in my first report as an old resident in this district, having only been in the employ of the Company some six or seven weeks. His name is James Donnelly, a single man whose parents reside somewhere in Waikato. Un-oat on»,jjt, is dun to the Company's Manager, Mr Russell, for his promptitude in connection with tho affair ; also all those who so readily and kindly assisted. The injured man now lies at Thames Hospital, having been conveyed from Paeroa to Thames on board the s.s. Ruby on Saturday. Strange to say a man named Bunting fell into one of the kilns this morning, but it being one of the old kilns the sides of which arc smooth, he escaped with a slight scratch oil the elbow.