A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
A serious accident occurred during the dinner hour to-day at .the Northern Roller Mills granary, to a youth named Albert Lee. He was jumping from stack to stack of sacks of wheat, and slipping, gripped a sack, wrrh the result tb-rt he pulled it over on top of him, several other sacks following. The unfortunate youLh was e:3Ctrica.ted wit-n all possible speed, and Dr. Grant was called in. It was found that Lee had sustained serious injuries, both legs and also his jaw being fractured. He was suffering so severely that chloroform was administered by Dr. Grant before dispatching him to the hospital in an ambulance. Lee has 'been in the employ of the company for a few years, and is highly thought of by those over him.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 6
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131A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 6
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