SERIOUS ACCIDNET TO A TRUCKER.
- -—- ■' i: WJSM'' r . -4tm [BT telegraph—own CORHBSrO*bS>tt,] Pakkoa, Friday, ~y'\., A HAN named Mainwaring mat/ with adj* '< tressingly painful accident ik KlriotahiU O. list Mening. The injured (nan WW* 1 ;,';! gaged tracking ore from the TaltontanGoidVs Mining Company's battery to the treatment plant, and immediately he started his track' off down the incline from (he bitter/ another trucker inadvertently set his wwgOn going in close pursuit. The latter, rfjp is said* also failed to make use Of hii brake, with the result that the full truck iptd:"'. down the Incline at. a great 'rite,' and o*Kh< J tag the preceding truck on the bridit t i ' collision occurred. In consequent* of tbe'Si' = condusaion, Mainwaring was thrown down I* front of the wheels, and was puihed by (lit truck about 30 feet along the rails. Ala result of this he received several' ie»etft bruises on the heal The cartilage of bil l ' left ear was out thrdSfeh, which &ect*slttM4'''L si* stitches being put in by' Dr. Forbad ' who attended the injured man.' A' deep wound behind the right far .*«)' alio Is-' dieted; in fact, it was so deep thatit wetti right in to the bone. Everythiria'poeaibji was done for the sufferer, and he it now t"- ?-' doing as well at can bettqttted."'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10509, 31 July 1897, Page 4
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