SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
RAILWAY EMPLOYEE INJURED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 16. A serious accident happened to a railway employee in the Thorndon railway yards to-night, when T. Townshend, whose duty it was to load coal into buckets prior to it being transferred to locomotives, fell down and came to rest with his left arm lying across one of the track rails. An engine passed just then, , the wheels passing over the left wrist and severing the left hand. The free ambulance was immediately summoned and the injured man, who resides at 13 Bute Street, was removed to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the arm.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 142, 17 May 1929, Page 7
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108SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 142, 17 May 1929, Page 7
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