MARVELLOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
By Telegraph—Press Association. MARTON, July 11. A yonng man, named John Pearson, had a marvellous escape from death to-day. He was connecting a pipe on a bridge across a stream when, by some means, the set screw on the intermediate shaft working the factory machinery caught his clothes, which were completely torn from his body, winding them round the shaft. Pearson hung on to a stringer with one hand, and it was fortunate that his clothes were wrenched from his body, otherwise he would have been whirled round the shaft and dashed against the stringers on both sides. As it was. he was drawn between the decking and stringer, about twelve inches in width. His arm was broken and he fell into the stream, eighteen feet below the bridge, and landed on his feet. He managed to get back to the factory and report the accident. In addition to the fractured arm, his body wau badly bruised.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8485, 12 July 1907, Page 5
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161MARVELLOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8485, 12 July 1907, Page 5
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