Abbreviations used
Date May 11 1860
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Morning News
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.
A seaman named Daniel CHASE was lost overboard from steamer Eastern City while on her passage from Eastport to this place. The steamer was immediately stopped and the body picked up, but life was extinct, the man having come under the paddles which struck him on the back of the neck. He belonged to Massachusetts. - Nbkr.