Fatal Accident. — In Timaru yesterday Joseph King, head miller at the Royal Flour Mills, got his foot caught in the points of the railway siding near the Mill and a truck ran over it. He was taken to the hospital, where the leg was amputated above the knee by Drs Hogg, Lovegrove, and Reid, but he failed to recover the shock to his nervous system, and he died shortly after the operation. -Temuka Leader, 19/11/1891.
Inquest. The inquest on the body of Joseph King, head-miller at the Royal Flour Mills, Timaru, resulted in a verdict that no one was to blame. Deceased's brother told the jury that he saw deceased at the hospital before the doctors arrived, and he told him his heel caught in something and the truck threw him down, and no one else was in any way to blame. -Temuka Leader, 21/11/1891.
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