A SHOCKING FATALITY.
[Pkr Press Association.] Gueymoutm, April 2, William Shand, employed at Stratford and Blair's sawmill, this afternoon met with & shocking accident. While canting a log with a crowbar close to a circular saw, the bur slipped, and Shand fell back, and, although the bar came in contact with the saw first, Sliand was frightfully mangled, his head being sawn in two. B^th arms are gone, and one leg and pottion of tho other cut off. Mr Blair, one of the proprietors, witnessed the occurrence. It was all over in a second, death being instantaneous. No one olse in the mill knew anything of the occurrence. Deceased was a married man, with a family.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11953, 3 April 1894, Page 2
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115A SHOCKING FATALITY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11953, 3 April 1894, Page 2
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