BLASTING ACCIDENT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 6

BLASTING ACCIDENT.

MAN BADLY BUalNf

r A *»!««** "g accident happened at the . naw deviation ol Uie road at '1 i tiokuita, >; afeovt St o'clock on Saturday afternuoh, I When John Mickey, a single man, about MB years of age, was badiy burnt about ■ ’ the anas* face and neck through a bag $ at gunpowder igniting. Hsckey, along with nine other men, V WB* engaged by the Public Works Der ;yarteent on the deviation of the main • ffairirr w'***"" road over the Titiokura . MIL They were lighting the fuse of a - ctanee when the accident happened, it ' 'ia satirised, through Hickey inadverfr*fr dropping the lighted match u to the bag of powder, the resulting ■ - ckiMMB enveloping Hickey in flamy"Bdward Rodgers, one of Hah? - '■■tel, noticing him burning, ■' aware' that the fuse had been Braa back to give assistance, au r - gg the spot just as the ctiarge va,.. . . Modgers crouched low on a ruUe <'■ <■ >. |y under the blast, and in . escaped serious injury. He v.... . «.• ■■ - * ever, hit on the back by .l y. stone, which will prevent ' • : | ' ’ • working for a few days. ’ '-Haaa trouble was exp.-it .1 triaging Hickey into the h->-. ■■. >... > • ’/ of the neo had to walk .1 ■ £ TePohue to ring up for . i . ... r Mane hours elapsed bei'e. r waived medical attentio pjJHaagitaL p*' Rickey this morning R.'. ho improving, though • tawe ~ ‘