A DOCK ACCIDENT.
SUDDEN INRUSH OF WATER. MIRACULOUS ESCAPES. (BY TELEGRAPH —riiESS ASSOCIATION—COPrKIGHT. (Rcc. Mar. 8, 0.20 a.m.) London, March 7.
During, tho preparations to admit tho water to the almost finished Vittoria Dock at Birkenhead, a high wind and high tide broke tho piles of timber forming tho dam.
Tho inrush of water caught nineteen men who were working in the dock and swept away the platform of hugo a crane whicl: collopscd upon tho workmen, pinning them, Five of them had miraculous escapes.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5
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85A DOCK ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5
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