A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
IWO MEN SERIOUSLY BURNED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TAIHAPE, Last Night.
While attempting to refill a lighted brazing lamp with methylated spirits yesterday evening, Albert Harvey,'aged 18, a cycle repairer, got frightfully burnt. The spirit caught fire, the flames ascending to the roof. Harvey, a mass of flames, rushed from the shop and crossed the road. He was entering a 'store when he was seized by E. Ingram, telegraph linesman, who promptly ripped the clothes off and laid the sufferer in the water-table, thus saving the man's life. Medical aid was summoned, and it was found that all the lower part of Harvey's body from the hip was more or less burnt, also his arms and hair were singed. Leslie Mahoney, a bootmaker on the same premises, was also burnt about the arms and face, a»,d it is feared he will lose his sight, tut tne latest reports are that both sufferers are doing as well as can be expected. The flames in the building were extinguished by a neighbour, Mr McCormick, with a chemical apparatus.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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178A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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