A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
George Gullick, about thirteen years, working at Bruce’s sawmills, Waimate, met with a frightful accident on April 25, which resulted fatally. The boy was helping a planer named James Ellis at the planingmachine in the mill, and they had occasion to go below to mend the lacing of the belt attached to the main shaft. The boy was holding the belt whilst his mate was lacing it. By some means or another he got entangled in the main shaft, and was hurled round and round with considerable force, the floor of the mill only being about 2ft or 3ft above the shaft. Both his arms were torn off just below the shoulder socket, and his legs severely crushed. On Dr Williams preceding to the scene he saw what a hopeless case he had to deal with, and had the sufferer taken immediately to the hospital, where he was handed over to Dr Hogg, the resident surgeon. Dr Williams remaining with him for an hour. Despite every attention, the lad died about 1 p.m.
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Western Star, Issue 295, 3 May 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)
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176A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Western Star, Issue 295, 3 May 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)
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