SUFFERING & ENDURANCE
AN EXTRAORDINAEY.<STORY.
(BI .TBLEORAIPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, This Day. An extraordinary story of suffering and physical endurance' .came, to light near Owaka on Saturday morning, L when, a middle-aged man named B. Reaney was found unconsciousT pinned under a log. Reaney, who was a-'bachelor, went into' the -bush.at a short distance from his' house to cut wood on Good Friday, and while at work was .caught by a falling! tree, which- pinned his leftrarm. He, was..for eight, days-in. this ielpless and excruciatingly "painful condition, roots and. grass torn up by his right hand being evidenqe of, the r plucky . and desperate fight he made for life. \ He was brought to the Dunedin' Hospital 'on. Saturday evening and the injured arm- had to be ampuKted. 'The condition of the man ■ was very low, and he expired-last evening. ■ •
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 7
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