TERRIBLE FATALITY AT TOKO.
(Egmont Settler). I A tkbrible fatal accident occurred at Messrs. Cluett and Pott's sawmill, Toko, at 11.30 this morning to a yeung man named John Ball, aged 20, brother to Mrs. J. R. Watt, of Beacnnsfield Read. It appears that Ball, with hi* mute, were engaged in mending a broken belt. Just as the work was completed, the vibration caused by the machiuery shook tbe belt ©ff the pin on to the shaft, and immediately it
started to wind up. It is supposed that when Ball was stepping back from the coiliag bslt, he slipped in a small gutter and fell on the running belt close by, with the result that he was carried round the rapidly revolving pully and horribly mangled. The roof of his skull was dashed off, his right ; leg was torn oil at the thighs, and his !bjdy generally mutilated, The face, however, remaining undisfigured. Death must have been instantaneous
The pulley is only about a foot from the ground, and it is thought that the unfortunate man's leg was wrenchen off as the body got dragged under. The deepest sympathy is felt for his siste-, Mrs. Watt, to whom tiio sid news will cuuse great grief.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 66, 2 April 1901, Page 2
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205TERRIBLE FATALITY AT TOKO. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 66, 2 April 1901, Page 2
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