LEGS CRUSHED.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 8

LEGS CRUSHED.

PINNED UNDERNEATH TRUCKS DERAILMENT IN HAMILTON SHUNTER’S LONG ORDEAL. Although In obvious pain and forced lo lie with his legs crushed between a derailed truck and the railway line in the Hamilton Railway Station yards for over an hour last evening, a shunler, Mr Walter James Poole (46), married, of Ellis Street, Franklon, materially assisted I lie men to extricate him. After his release he was taken lo the Waikato Hospital in a St. John ambulance from crushed feet. His condition to-day was satisfactory though X -ray photographs had to be taken to determine the extent of his injuries, which, it is understood, are not serious. The cause or the accident which derailed the line of six empty trucks not yet known. Mr Poole was engaged in shunting in the. Hamilton yards after six o’clock last evening when six empty trucks derailed just as they were passing him. Mr Poole was found lying across the line securely caught with his feet jammed between the wheels of one of the trucks and the railway lines. The other railway workers Immediately secured limber jacks from neighbouring garages and with the light, of oil flares commenced to right the trucks. They had to proceed very carefully so as not further to injure Mr Poole, who, wilh great fortitude, assisted to direct the operations. A doctor was summoned, and administered morphia, though Mr Poole remained conscious throughout. The derailment was in the sidin.r, and no delay was caused to traffic. There was little damage to cither the trucks or the line.