ACCIDENT AT KARANGAHAKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 29 March 1899, Page 2

ACCIDENT AT KARANGAHAKE.

YOUTH'S ARM TORN OFF.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

P AERO A, this day.

A young man named Carlson met with a serious accident in the Talisman Company's battery at Karangahake to-day. By some means unknown his arm got caught in a bel% and he was taken round and round, his arm being at last dragged oic between the elbow and the shoulder. Dr. Forbes was in Karangahake and attended the sufferer, and he was driven into Paeroa and taken to the Thames Hospital by train, accompanied by Mr Kitching, clerk for the company. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. Carlson, injured at Karangahake, was the Krupp mill hand, and at the time of the accident was in the act of putting on the belt, which had come off the pulley. He had succeded in getting on the belt, and while applying the anti-friction grease his hand in some way got drawn under the pulley, the result being- that the arm was torn off completely close to the shoulder. The young man was alone at the time, and it must have been several minutes before he got disengaged, which only happened when the arm was torn off. He fell into a vat underneath. Owing to the noise of the machinery he could not attract anyone to his assistance, and notwithstanding the terrible extent of his injuries the young fellow walked to another part of the mill, when the employees discovered his condition. Dr. Forbes, of Paeroa, was in Karangahake at the time and rendered every possible assistance, and the case being particularly a bad one he kindly accompanied the sufferer to the Thames Hospital. Upon arrival at this institution it was found necessary by Dr. Williams to amputate the arm at the shoulder joint, Dr. Forbes assisting. The young fellow has also sustained some nasty lacerations on the back, and his condition is rather critical. Carlsen bore ■ his sufferings with remarkable fortitude, and it is really marvellous how, in his terrible condition, he could have made his way to his fellow-employees after the fearful accident.