Fearful Accident.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1600, 5 January 1886, Page 4

Fearful Accident.

The General Post Office was the scene of another terrible aud fatal accident yesterday morning /any* the Sydney Daily Telegraph of the 16th inst), when an old and experienced workman named Thomas Bradshaw lost his life. Al 11 o'clock Bradshaw was employed with a shift of men under his direction, at the top of the new tower, m taking down tho scaffolding. He was working about 10 feet above the other men, almost on the pinnacle of the. tnwer,| when by a mishap he lost 'his footing and'felK A man named Thomas W. Henderson was working lower down on tho scaffolding, and one named Henry Cooper a little lower still. They saw Bradshaar m the act of getting over., a derrick to catch hold of what is known as the '• plate," when he made a clutch at a rope as if to steady himself. He caught hold of it, but by an ill chance it swuug loose, sud unable to recover himself the unfortunate man reeled over, gave a short despairing scream, and then fell headlong downwards. He whirled ronnd and Tound until he .reached the ornamented stone coping of the main building,' which he struck with terribje force, and then rebounding, fell a distance of between 80 and 90 feet more, dropping with a heavy thud on to a pile of ladders, planks,|and building material. Life of course was extinct, and the body lay on the ground an almost unrecognisably mutilated mass, presenting a shocking spectacle. Death must have ensued long before the ground was reached. The deceased was 53 years of age, was married, and leaves several children. t ■■?"'*■■■>.