SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
FALL DOWN A -HATCH
[Press Association:]
AUCKLAND Dec. 16
Thomas Bulger, second cook of the steamer Flora, sustained a -rather serious accident this afternoon whilst on board the vessel. Meeting in the steerage a passenger in the head of the companion-way, Bulger stepped backward to let the other pass, and went so far back as to fail! over tflie combings of the hatchway, and down the hatch for -a distance of 22 feet. He was picked up in a semi-conscious condition, and taken to the hospital, where it was found that his left
was -broken bellow the knee, and that several ribs bad been fractured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2376, 17 December 1908, Page 5
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107SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2376, 17 December 1908, Page 5
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