Just a short item today as
I have to get ready to join my friends
in Bible Hill, where we are
entertaining the more senior, seniors.....
FATAL ACCIDENT AT ACADIA
MINES – LONDONDERRY, APRIL 30-
James POWER, laborer at the
blast furnace, was accidently killed
at about 4 o’clock this
morning. He was passing up with the cage
loaded with ore in the
elevator, when by some unexplainable means,
possibly by becoming ill,
his head and shoulders became jammed
between the cage and the
timbers in the elevator and the rising cage
caught him. The cage was
immediately stopped by his companion,
but when released life was
extinct. Mr. Power came here from
Wallace about four years
ago and has been an industrious steady
workman, well liked by his
fellow laborers. He leaves a widow and
five small children, for
whom much sympathy is expressed. This sudden
fatal accident has cast
quite a gloom over the community. The blast
furnace, which was stopped
for a day this week in consequence of the
foundation becoming
defective, is again in full working order, and
turning out the usual daily
output of iron. Halifax MORNING HERALD,
May 1, 1886, plate 3,
column 3