ACCIDENT A T THE POROTCRAO TUNNEL.
PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT. [Wi TKLKGRAPH—OWN OOBRESPONDKNT.] Tk Awamoto, Monday. A man named John Farley, working at the Porotoiua tunnel oontract, was brought down here on Saturday, and eent on to the Auokland Hospital by the afternoon train, one of his legs having been badly smashed about five o'clock on Friday night. It seems that Farley, who was running a tip-waggon, got caught by the waggon and crushed against a rock. A man named Keefe, who has some little surgical skill, bound up and dressed the shuttered limb, and a stretcher was then made, and a company of five and twenty of his mates volunteered to carry down the latter by relays to Otorohanga, where they could get the train. Some of them had only come off the day shift when the start was made, and they carried the unfortunate sufferer through the night, reaching Otorohanga next day. Farley was a atrauger in the district, and it is said not long from the old country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7914, 5 April 1887, Page 5
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