TRUCK DERAILED.
WORKMAN BADLY INJURED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) THAMES, Tuesday.
Just after passing a bend in the K.r.urj Timber Company's log railway on Sunday afternoon a box truck containing a number of workmen and sightseers was jolted violently off the rails and crashed down a 20-foot bank into a swiftly-running stream.
One workman, A. J. Mo Duff, aged 4(5, was pinned under the truck, and was in danger of drowning, when a companion came to bis assistance and In Id bis head above water until he could be extricated from his painful position. Examination at the hospital disclosed a cut on the heart and injuries to the lower part of the back. the full ex ten I of which has not yet been ascertained.
All the other members of the party were more or less severely bruised.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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