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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 11

A man named Harkness has been engaged for several weeks in peeling bark on Moosic Mountains and removing the logs to a mountain skidway near Heriick Centre, Pa., where they are rolled into the river 250 feet below. On Friday, while Harkness was at the skidway attempting to move a large log with his cant-hook, the hook slipped, throwing Harkness down the embankment, the log following after. As Harkness shot down the moantain side he gathered himself together and made a fearful leap into the river. He happened to strike a clear place between the logs, and thus escaped a terrible death. He was rescused by the workmen a few feet from the large log which rolled into the river just behind- him. Harkness held on to the cant-hook all the time, and was taken out of the river with it still in his grasp.