ACCIDENTS.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10663, 11 March 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS.

Mr J. Krahagen met with a serious accident just before noon yesterday. Mr Krahagen was engaged, with assistance, in making trial of a gas engine which had just been erected at his wood yard. Standing in front of the engine, he was turning the flywheels to start the engine, his left foot being placed on the frame of the engine under the cranK to get leverage. A young man, who was attending to the gas, seeing the dangerous position of Mr Krahagen's foot, called out and also shut off the gas, but the engine made one revolution, and as there was a very small space between the end of the crank and the frame Mr Krahagen received a terrible blow on the foot. The engine was stopped, and assistance rendered Mr Krahagen, who fainted from the pain. Two doctors were called iv, and found that the great toe is badly smashed, and it may be that it will have to be ; taken off. The accident will involve 'Mr Krahagen being laid up forjfive !or six weeks, and this is the more [ unfortunate on account of his work I being behind hand through his being | without an engine for five weeks i past. Yesterday morning a young man named John Shirtliff, while engaged in levering a portion of the flooring of the old City Council Chambers, slipped and collided with a passing vehicle, sustaining severe bruises on one foot. He' was incapacitated from work, but will be well enough to resume in a few days. We learn that Mr George Harper, of Suburban North, had one of his legs injured yesterday with a billhook. He lost a quantity of blood before medical aid could be procured. It is hoped that he will be about again in a few days. Mr Trask had a narrow escape from serious, probably fatal, injury yesterday morning. While npon the Eailway wharf, looking over the side at a launch some ten feet below him, he lost bis balance, and was just about to pitch head foremost on to the vessel beneath when a bystander grabbed him by the coattails, and saved the fall. It was such a narrow shave that Mr Trask was much shaken by the occurrence.