TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2922, 12 June 1888, Page 2

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

• One of the most painful accidents we have been called upon to chronicle for some considerable time past happened yesterday (Monday) afternoon at Messrs F. Jaunctt k Co.'s sawmill Mangamahoe, to Mr Ole Anderson who up to recently carried on business as a blacksmith at the Taueru. From what we can learn, Mr Andersen lias been engaged during the past few days as henchman, and yesterday whilst following up the last board on the Hedge a very light 'face cut'droppedoff the board on to the top of the circular saw and rebounding with terrific force struck Andersen fair in the face. The concussion was so great that the poor fellow was knocked down insensible between the rails of the tramway. On being picked up his face presented a fearfully lacerated appearance, his eye having been severed, and a portion of the bono under tlio eyebrow laid bare, The left eye was also very much cut about, in fact to such a serious extent that it is possible poor Anderson will be deprived of the sight of this eye also. Mr Jannett lost no time in getting to the railway station, and despatching a telegram to Sergeant Price to send up medical assistance. Dr, Milne's services were engaged, and -within two hours lie arrived at Mangamahoe on horseback, a distance of fully twenty miles, On examination, the doctor found the right eye in the state already mentioned. Under the leit eye ho found embedded a splinter fully two inches long, and over half an inch in width. This lie tried hard to extract with the instruments he had brought, failing which he at once ordered the patient's removal to the Masterton Hospital, where he would be enabled to obtain proper assistance. A light brake having been procured, Andersen was sent to the Hospital, where lie arrived at half past ten last night, Drs, Hooking and Milne, who were .in

waiting, at once commencedoperations to extract the splinter, which they eventually succeeded in doing by splitting the piece in two, and drawing them out separately. The poor fellow bore the painful operation with great fortitude, but the doctors found it necessary to put him under chloroform before the extraction could be completed.