SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT.
* (RmM Dawkr ''9,10.10 turn.) * Sydney, Decembor 2'J. A bonsnliuuiil accident look place at Mori's Dock. While tho steamer Katoomba was beiuß berthed, the tackle collapsed and she slipped from the cradle. A largo number of dock bauds were llirowu into tlie water, two named Nelson and Gallagher boing drowned, and two others, Morloy * and Remington, being injured. Tho others were rescued by swimming ashore. By the force of the plunge tho steamer backed right across tho bay and narrowly escaped running into several ferry steamers moored on the opposite side.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5825, 29 December 1897, Page 2
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