Friday, January 26,1906 Painful Accident At The Arapiles Flour Mills Frank BAKER, employed as a wheat lumper at the local mill, met with a nasty accident on Wednesday. The last bag of a huge stack of wheat in front of the mill was being stacked in the shed, BAKER called to Bob BRAY, who was driving the horse, to pull up, at the same time grasping the pulley rope. The middle and third finger were caught between the pulley and the rope, and the tops cut off. A similar accident to another employee named HARRIS a few days previously was narrowly averted, HARRIS dragging his fingers from under the rope just in time. A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM, Daryl Crabtree Gladstone C.Qld Australia West Wimmera Mail extracts are on the Web www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/index.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl Crabtree" <crabtree@tpgi.com.au> Subject: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] WEST WIMMERA MAIL > Friday, January 26,1906 > Painful Accident At The Arapiles Flour Mills > Frank BAKER, employed as a wheat lumper at the local mill, met with a nasty > accident on Wednesday. I think that this was Frank Gilbert BAKER son of Matthew BAKER & Harriet MEAKER. > The middle and third finger were caught between the pulley and the rope, > and the tops cut off. A similar accident to another employee named HARRIS a > few days previously was narrowly averted, HARRIS dragging his fingers from > under the rope just in time. > What a pity they didn't put this HARRIS man's first name. He may have been another one of mine. Cheers, Carolyn Harris - nee Johnson (Victorian in exile) PO Box 4157, Myaree Business Centre, Myaree 6960, Western Australia Tall_Trees@Bigpond.com Tall Trees Family History http://www.users.bigpond.com/Tall_Trees/ Perth Dead Person's Society http://www.perthdps.com/research/har02.html (Please note that large attachments (over 500kb) will automatically be deleted) ============================================================== The e-mail of the species is deadlier than the mail.