ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
While working in No. 3 hold of the Delphic last night, a wharf labourer named Michael Callaghan, employed by Messrs. Gannaway and Thompson, stevedores, had his leg broken between the knee and ankle. Tho uscending hook of the derrick displaced tho fore-and-aft beam of tho hatchway, causing it to full into tho hold- and strike Callaghan. Dr. Henry attended to the injured man. [BY TELEORAPH— I'RESS ASSOCIATION.] CHKIBTCHUHCH, THIS DAY. A man named John Drew was picked up in a state of collapse in a Herofordstreet right-of-way last night. He was removed to the Hospital, where he died this morning, without having recovered consciousness. Ho was a widower, about 60 years of age, and camo from Pigeon Bay on Tuesday. Ho was not a man of intemperate habits, but lie bad a bruise over the right eye.
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1899, Page 6
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