THE NENTHORN ACCIDENT.
Particulars of the accident at the Nonthorn railway works on Wednesday last show that the man James Russell was a sub-contractor, and had six men working with him. They had been blasting rock, and a dynamite and powder charge missing fire Russell and a man named John M’Grath started to work to drill in order to extract the charge, when it suddenly went off. Russell, who was holding the drill, had his left hand blown off at tho wrist, three fingers taken off his right hand, his right arm and shoulder broken, and his face and the upper part of his body much bruised and cut. He died at ten o’clock the same evening. M'Crath, who was striking the drill at the time of the explosion, had his face badly cut and bruised, and it is feared that his sight lias been injured. He was brought into the Dunedin Hospital to-day by Constable M'Carthy. An inquest will be held at Outram to-morrow morning on the body of Russell, who was fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and family, resident at King street, Dunedin,
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Evening Star, Issue 6843, 5 March 1886, Page 2
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188THE NENTHORN ACCIDENT. Evening Star, Issue 6843, 5 March 1886, Page 2
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