WORKER’S AGONY

Grey River Argus, 23 October 1930, Page 3

WORKER’S AGONY

Buried by Logs j TRAGEDY ON MILL TRAMWAY. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 22. Bulled under a massive weight of logs, when a bush truck u n which he was travelling overturned, Charles William Turkey, a sawmill worker, employed a.t Gamman’s Sawmill.' Ohakune Junction, was found to be. in agony for over a n hour this after-1 nooji before he was* discovered. -Med'-.al aid was summoned, but} Turkey had received terrible injuries,! which resulted in his death shortly| afterwards. < Turkey, ai single- man. aged 26,1 whose pairents reside near Taihape, was working on a bush. tramway 1 ! carrying logs from thr- bush, to the mill. A fully laden truck, on which: he was traveling back to the mill,l capsized as if was going down a hill, I and Turkey was pinned to the ground} by the weight, of the logs which felll on- top of him. ( It was nearly ian hour before ano-j ther truck came down the tramway, and Turkey’s plight was discovered/ Workmen were immediately called to assist i H removing the heavy logs, and bfter.a. few minutes of s!rcnuou< <f- ( forb, Turkey was freed. However, his legjs and ribs wore badly crushed, and he was unable to move. The injured man hurried to -OhaktuieJ where he received attention. The in-,' juries to his chest were very serious/ however,, and within an hour he died J