TORN BY COGS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 August 1925, Page 8

TORN BY COGS.

MAN'S TERRIBLE INJURIES. •' YET SMOKED .AND SMILED. - RIYLSTONE (N.S.W.), Aug. 19. Though (hits arm was crushed to- pullp, and the,left;, side of his body torn by cog; wheels, Hebert Henry ‘Smith, 26.; a" b’eltnuaii, calmly smoked Aa- cigarette and talked, a,s his mates strove feverishly,, for half aii Lour, to -release -him: from the'machinery, into which lie had been draym. L--.; The accident happened at the Ka,lidos Cement Works. Smith-, died a few hours later. Xy 1 . He had proposed to attefid. a sports meeting that might, but changed his; mind and went 'to' work —lahdi. death. Smith wlas fixing a belt on a wheel at No-.' 3 elevator about Tl;-, o’clock on Monday night, and it is supposed that his fingers were caught, that lie slipped and hits arm was dragged'into the cogs. - ' ' . ’’A His sudden, cry brought l .has mates rushing to his assistance, \while the -shnill blaiSlte” of the midnight shift whistle,’ intiiniating that a doctor ms needed,- echoed' throiigli land..stirred the towns'. The machinery was stopped; and tfhe men worked franitiicially to release their mate, who must have been in terrible agony. When he was finally extricated his a,nn Avas seen to have been reduced to pulp,- while the left side of his body was crushed and marked by the cogs-, where he had been;,drawn in. 1 'He Ai'iais attended to by Dr. Darton. but died at 3 a. m. , , , ;.. Smiith Avals .comsioiouis through o ut, and -showed Av’onderful courage ’.while imprisoned in the machinery. - He asked for a cigarette, balmily -smoked; it, »smilcd, and chatted, Aviitli. his mattes. He .. leaves a widow, in "indifferent, health, .and three young children.