FATAL ACCIDENT.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 276, 27 May 1907, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT.

The Mangaweka Settler gives the following particulars of the fatal accident to Mr Forsyth: — Mr George Forsyth, sub-inspector for the Public Works Department at Waiouru, met with a fatal accident on Thursday night at about 5.30. He was riding on the engine of the train that leaves the railhead at 4 p.m. When coming through a narrow cutting on what is known as the loop :ine ,about 40 chains beyond Waiouru, his foot caught the side of the cutting, which his only wide enough for the engine and trucks to pass through, and he was turned round two or three times between the engine and the side of the bank, and then fell between the ends of the sleepers and the hank. To use his own words when he was picked up, he said : "I counted three wheels pass over me. I tried to pull my leg away, but there was not enough room." The driver stopped the engine at onee 1 , but it could not pull up until three wheels of a X) B truck had passed over the left leg. grinding the bone to splinters and tearing a frightful gash in the flesh tetween the ankle and the knee. He was taken straight into Taihape, where everything was done that could be done for him. Drs. Barnett and Rodgers stayed with him and amputated the crushed limb, and also found that the right leg had received a fracture of the large bone. He remained conscious until after he reachei Taihape, and bore up manfully, but collapsed when the doctors were attending to him and never properly came round again. He died at 12.5 a.m. on Friday morning. He was a single man about 34 years of age, and has a father and mother in Dunedin, also has brothers, one in Dunedin and one in Wellington. He was a universal favourite and what is generally termed a white man .