FELL UNDER ENGINE
MAN’S HAND SEVERED ACCIDENT AT THORNDON Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. A shocking accident happened to a railway employee in the Thorndon railway -yard tonight. Mr. T. Townsliend, whose duty it was to load coal Into buckets prior to its being transferred to locomotives, fell down and came to rest with his left arm lying across one of the train rails. An engine passed just then, the wheels passing over the left wrist and severing the hand. The free ambulance was summoned and the injured man was removed to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the arm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 16
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