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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 67 Number 87

Date April 21 1887
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

About 11 o'clock yesterday morn. an accident occurred in Miller & Woodman's mill which deprived David DUNCAN of his life. He was a young man of 20 years and was engaged as a spare hand around the mill. When he met his death he was attending to the machinery which hauls the logs from the slip into the mill. In some way the loose portion of the lower part of his pants was caught in the 'nigger' wheel and his leg was drawn between the cogs which crushed the bones as they turned until the machinery was stopped. Duncan was unconscious almost from the first. He was taken to his home in Fairville (St. John) where he died at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Dr. Steeves and McFarlane attended him.

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