A BAG OF "TAIPO."

Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 4

A BAG OF "TAIPO."

AFIRE ON A MAN’S BACK.

A singular accidenLhappcncd this mousing at Bogg’s. quarry, on Urn'An/uson Bay road.' i • «' ■■ Percy MoQthouao, twenty-eight yen;;- of J age, wasengaged in burning off £ors<. bn i the brow, of the hill..\ On: flie top b( ;ho ; hill stood a shed beldhging to the tji' ,v. ' From this shod a quantity of “ Taipc ..ad been removed, and was lying .aboid «dy to betaken away. This “Taip. was old, and useless for the purposes ♦> - (he quarry.” _ Moorhouse was- carryingr one of the bags of “Taipo” on his badjc, and as he moved through the burning gorse' his trousers caught fire. Thai blaze ran up his body to the “Tamo," arid set it on fire. He threw the biasing, bag down, and bolted up the hill, and, its bad lock would haqe it, ran in among the “ Taipo ’’ lying on the ground. r ...' Mr L. Gillanders, who ’Was in charge, hearing' Moorhouse’s cries, ran to him and <i ripped off his flaming shirt, throwing it i down, and the inflammable* “ Taipo’ 1 at j once caught fire and communicated with the shed, which was burnt down. The shed was not of much value, but its y contents included two generators and some tools, and the loss is about £6O. . Hr Church happened to be passing, and ' he attended to Moarhouse, then ordering i his removal to the hospital. He was : burnt about tho. arm and face, but not very seriously. The sufferer is a single man, belonging to Halfway Bush. He had been at the quarry about three ■ months, ' i