ACCIDENTS
PEEBB ASSOCIATION. GEEYMOUTH. April 10. William Wratt, farmer, of Ahaura, fell off the Reefton train last night, when passing a viaduct, and was killed. A large crowd of people assembled yesterday afternoon around the site in Mercer street where the municipal lighting station is to be erected, a man having been injured by the collanse of a piledriving frame. Ben Proud, of 4. Pirie street, labourer, was working at one of two pile-drivers. The guy ropes of the other pile driver tore- from their holding, and in running past the man was knocked down by the falling structure., which broke his left thigh and inflicted a scalp wound two inches in length. James Millican, employed in Messrs Travers' joinery workshop, had on© of his hands cut by a circular saw yesterday afternoon. H© was taken to the hospital. It if? feared the hand will have to be amputated.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 9
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