SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association fJQRE, November 2.
A distressing accident happened at the Gore railway yard this morning, the victim being Forrester Mackley. an engine-driver on the Waikaka line. Maukley was standing on the engine attached to the outgoing Clinton goods train, talking to the driver and while ju npi g down off the footplate a truck, which was being shunted, and whi -*h he did not notice, struck him in the back, knocking him down and carrying him along, underneath. Mackley was car ried fjlly thirty feet before a bystander nOtired the accident and promptly applied the brake. When extricated the unfortunate man was conveyed to the hospital, where it was found that the injuries sustained were a shattered shoulder, loss of the index finger, and pirt of the | thumb. One aim may have to be amputated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9639, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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139SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9639, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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