A FATAL ACCIDENT.
WHILE SHIFTING A BIG BAITLE3HIP.
THREE MEN KILLED,
FORTY OTHERS INJUREP
Received March 22, 8.50 a.m
LONDON, March 21
An accident, resulting in loss of life, occurred at the works of Viewers and Sons and Maxim, at Barrow, 1 while workmen were passing the first-class battleship Vanguard, 19,250 tons, from the dock to the wharf.
The cause of the accident was the collapse of a gangway. Fifty men were precipitated from the wharf into the dock, three being killed and forty injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3144, 23 March 1909, Page 5
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85A FATAL ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3144, 23 March 1909, Page 5
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