ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25269, 22 August 1947, Page 9

ACCIDENTS

BOY INJURED AT ASHBURTON

JUMPED FROM MOVING ' TRAIN

The engine-driver of the north express stopped the train suddenly at the Ashburton railway station yesterday when he saw a boy fall between the platform and the train. In attempting to alight from the train, John Ernest Hatton, aged 13, of 62 Cleveland street, Christchurch, fell, suffering a scalp wound and a severe shaking. After being attended by Dr. J. Connor, of Ashburton, he was able to proceed on the train to Christchurch.

Hatton was standing by the forward carriage entrance as the train drew into the station. He jumped from the moving train in the opposite direction to which it was travelling, and fell beneath it. The train was halted be’fore the rear carriage wheels reached the boy.

SAWMILL WORKER INJURED Max Emmerson, 29, single, a mechanic, of Greymouth, received severe burns to his face, neck and hands when an electric switch blew out in his face while he was at work yesterday afternoon in Ogilvie and Company’s sawmill"at Gladstone Siding. He was admitted to the Grey Hospital, and his condition is reported to be serious.

SIGHT LOST AFTER GORSE PRICKLE ENTERS EYE

Daniel Thomson, of Greenstone, an employee of the Grey County Council, who received an injury to his left eye when a prickle from a gorse bush entered it while he was cutting scrub last week, has lost the sight of the eye.