PLUCKY FIGHT FOR LIFE.
PINNED BY A LOG EOR EIGHT DAYS. An extraordinary story of suffering and physical endurance came 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, went into the 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. Ho was for eight days in this helpless- and excruciatingly painful condition, the roots and grass torn up by his right hand being evidence of the plucky and desperate fight ho made for life. He was brought into the Dnjncdin Hospital on Saturday evening, and the injured arm had to be amputated. The condition of the unfortunate man was very low, and he expired at 11 o'clock last evening.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 25
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