1906
Excavation of the Allan Shaft continued.
Two men died in a long fall
when a staging broke,
H.A. Cooke and A. Perris(Paris?).
A third man, Alfred
Skinner, was injured.
Alexander Cameron was killed when overrun by a hopper
in the Vale yard, and James Stewart died
after being struck by a rake in the
Albion.
From: The Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S.:
Tuesday morning, 5 December 1905
The Allan Shafts
While timbering in No. 1 shaft yesterday morning
a plank on which two men
were standing broke under their weight
and they fell about twelve(feet?)
to
the bottom and each had a broken leg.
Their names were Hugh Cook and Alfred
Skinner.
They were taken to Aberdeen Hospital
and we learn that in the case
of the latter
the fracture of the bone is so bad that
the leg will have to
be amputated below the knee.
Friday, 8 December 1905
Hugh Cooke, one of the men injured in the Allan shaft
as stated in these
columns in Monday's issue,
was yesterday morning very low
and it was not
expected that he would recover.
At first it was thought that his injury was
only a broken leg;
but later he became violently insane
and on examination
it was found that he was struck on the head
and the skull fractured.
An
operation was performed on his head
and the injury was found so serious that
his life was despaired of.
We could not learn at the hour of going to press
how the unfortunate man was.
Friday, 8 December 1905
The young man, Cook, who was so severely injured
in the Allan Shaft on
Monday,
belongs to Issac's Harbor.
His mother came on yesterday.
Tuesday, 12 December 1905
Verdict of Jury
The following is the Verdict of Jury
in case of Hugh A. Cooke injured at
Allen Shaft,
from which injury he died:
That said Hugh A. Cooke came to his death at Aberdeen Hospital,
on the
eight day of December, 1905,
from injuries received on the fourth day of
said month,
by the falling of a scaffold in the Allen Shaft, at Lourdes.
The
jury are of the opinion that the part of the material used
in the
construction of said scaffold was unfit
for the purposes for which it was
used.
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