ARM TORN OFF.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
An accident attended by most remarkable circumstances occurred on the 29th ult. at Woodstock, Victoria. The victim was a young man named Thomas Douglas, who now lies in the Bendigo Hospital with his right arm torn out of his shoulder. Douglas was driving the engine of a threshing machine on the farm of Mr James Hayes, and Avent to the front wheel to do something to the crank. The end of the shaft caught his clothes and whirled the unfortunate man around several times until he was stripped almost naked. Finally, he was thrown several feet off without
being hurt to any serious extent, and the engine was stopped. A few" moments later Douglas put out his hand to move his clothes, which were still on the shaft, but just as he did so his brother re-started the engine. Douglas' hand was caught in the crank end of the shaft, his arm was drawn in, terribly mangled, and pulled out at the shoulder, with about six inches of .shoulder boue and muscle adhering. The patient is doing as well as can be expected.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 5
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