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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 374, 7 November 1889, Page 2

At tbe Thames Cambria Goldmining Company's battery the other Saturday a lad named George Muir, aged 16 yean, was at the battery watching a crushing which waa being treated on behalf ot himself and another lad named George Pearos, Ths stuff had all been put through the stampers, which at tbe time of the accident wore standing idle, but the berdans were at work grinding tailings. Muir and another lad were '* larking," and when running along the space which separated two rows of berdans hs put up his right hand to take some grease from one ot the oog-whoata for tbs purpose ot smearing his oompaninn’s face with it, Thia, it would seam, ho did wlthont paying much attention to the danger be was incurring, and the result was that his hand and arm to a little above ths elbow were drawn almost instantly in between the cogs, which terribly mangled the bones and lacerated the flesh. Ho immediately called out for help, and those at work In the battery ran to bis assistance, but it wgs fully twenty minutes before ha wee extricated from hie perilous position. When taken out the arm was dreadfully mangled, there being only one thumb end the first Anger left on the bgnd, the cogs having torn the flesh and crushed the bones to places'to slightly above the elbow,