ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER.
A STEVEDORE KILLED. By Telegraph —Press! Association. WELLINGTON, March 5, While the stevedores were applying the hatch coverings over No. 3 hold on the steamer Surrey, this •evening, the steel cuoss beams slipped out of position, and fell, with two of the men, down the empty hold, a distance of thirty-eight feet. J. Beard, an unmarried man, was pinned below one of the beams and billed. John Usher had an arm broken and his jaw fractured. He is also supposed to have sustained internal injuries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8373, 6 March 1907, Page 5
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89ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8373, 6 March 1907, Page 5
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