GELIGNITE ACCIDENT AT LONG POINT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 14

GELIGNITE ACCIDENT AT LONG POINT.

YOUNG MAN'S NARROW ESCAPE.

6n Sunday morning, while preparing 1 a gelignite plug, a young man, Georgei Meek, of liO^g Point, Kata'nui, had two/ fbigers and a thumb blown off hifi right! hand-

Meek was casting the plug into a lagoon,* for the purpose of killing some eele, when) owing to a bad fuse, it exploded before/ leaving his hand. He was knocked bacK j wards, and his hand injured as above. Htf walked 300 yards to hig father's house, and", after having the injury roughly bound! up, rofle 10 miles to Owaka at a walking pace, the roads being in a rery bap stated Hie brother accompanied him, and wheijl they arrived at Br Pembert6n*6 the in* jurec} man wag weak from lo6s of bloody and suffered greatly frond pain and shocjri The doctor amputated thfe fingers at th«( knupkles, and the thumb at the first jointi, having hie patient under phjoroform. Itl ws§ # case Which required every care -ftndl attention, an,d the. eervaojeg of Mie* Chrl^ie vrere kW&HJ appteoiated in attend^ ing to the sufferer, Aocpmpanted by hid brother, ths patjieni went jn to DuneUia for the purpoee of going to the Hospital.-** Clutha Leader,

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