A terrible accident took place on April lCfch at the new works for the construction of a railway and road bridge, from Victoria to New South Wales, across the Murray at Echuca. Several men were at work removing some of the loading ■which was piled up on one of the cylinder piers for the purpose of sinking it, when in some way the cylinder toppled over, and knocked down in its fall some of the supports of the " traveller," then engaged in hoisting. The result was a tremendous crash of stone, iron, and timber in an immense heap of ruin, in which six unfortunate men were involved, and terribly injured. They wore removed at once to the hospital at Sandhurst, but five of them died one by one within a few days. •
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3929, 11 June 1877, Page 2
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