A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 2

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

ACCIDENT IX A TUNNEL. 1 My Telegraph.— Press Association Chnstchurch. Last Xijrlit. A nun named J'ercv Waddcll had a miraculous escape from dealli at the tunnel works early this morning. \y iU ]- ilell was trucking from the tunnel month to the tiphead and had taken the rake of seven trucks down, ami was in the act of tipping them from the trestle, "inch has been constructed to facilitate tins work, when by some means the whole rake commenced to move forward, apparently through being insufl'icicntlv liraked. All the trucks are litted with a powerful screw brake, and there .s'houltl I 'be no difficulty in holding tiiem. but ii.-. V.'aldel was a new hand at the work it is -oriiiscd Unit when he found the) truck' moving towards destruction he Inst Irs head ami unscrewed the brake inslesil of,-. rowing it on. The result | "as i! •'. Mlmlo rake went over the jtveaile 1 wassinaslied to pieced W-nl-I lei attempteil lo alight on the end of I the sleepers, but missel hi s foolim* and fell a dislance of fortv-live feet to the river-bed below, where he was picked up in an unconscious condition some lime after. He has now regained consciousness, but is buffering from internal injuries, besides a broken leg and several cuts and bad bruises.