PINNED UNDER TRACTOR
UNUSUAL FARM ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, 20th July. John. Welsh, junior, a farmer of Kapuka South, was admitted to a private hospital to-day suffering from internal injuries and exposure.
It appears that Welsh was driving a tractor across swampy ground with a plough attached, on Monday afternoon, when the wheels got bogged. Welsh increased the power, with the result that the tractor wound itself over backwards, pinning him on the soft wet ground. A man in a gig, passing nearby at midnight, heard cries and discovered Welsh pinned in a foot of water with his head just showing. Owing to the weight of the tractor, it took three hours to extricate him. He is in a precarious condition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 15
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122PINNED UNDER TRACTOR Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 15
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