HORRIBLE WHARF ACCIDENT
KILLED BY A CAPSTAN.
By Telegraph.— Press Association. , ) Wellington, Last Night. ,: |i A horrible accident happened at thej Glasgow wharf at 4.20 p.m. yesterday,!; whereby John Patrick Baillie, aged 6(J| years, was killed instantly. Baillie wa* a permanent employee of the New Zea-? land Shipping Company, and was engagij ed in loading cargo for the steamer Rua-< hine. He was working at the ropes of U capstan controlled by hydraulic power,? He became entangled in the ropes, and,? the machinery being set in motion, th*; unfortunate man was violently whirled round the capstan for several minute*] until the pressure could be turned off; 1 His left leg was completely torn frpnij I the groin, his left arm torn from th« shoulder, the left foot crushed, the bacK of the head bruised, and the body gen! erally terribly mangled. An inquest was held this afternoon, and a verdict of ac-j cidental death was returned. The de 4 ceased leaves a widow and a grown-uw family of four. • r ,"
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19101114.2.49
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 184, 14 November 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
170HORRIBLE WHARF ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 184, 14 November 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in