PLUCKY FIGHT FOR LIFE
PINNED BY A LOG FOR EIGHT DAYS.
An extraordinary story of suffering and physical endurance cam© to light near Owaka on Saturday morning, when a mid-dle-aged man named Bernard Reany was found unconscious, pinned under a log. Reany, who was a bachelor, wont into tho bush at a short distance from his house to cut wood on Good Friday, and-while at work was caught by a falling tree, which pinned his left arm. He was for eight days in this helpless and excruciatingly painful condition, tho roots and grass torn up by his right hand being evidence of the plucky and desperate fight ho mado for life. He was brought into the Dtvneoin Hospital on Saturday evening, and tho injured arm had to be amputated. Tho condition of the unfortunate maji was very low, and 1 ho expired at 11 o'clock last evening.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16979, 16 April 1917, Page 6
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