From Evening Express, Portland, Maine page 4, col.1 It Resulted Fatally A young man named Joseph Broadhurst, employed at the iron works of C.M. & H.T. Plummer, on Union street, was accidentally struck on the breast, yesterday afternoon, by a sheet of iron upon which he was at work. Rich's ambulance was called and the man taken to the Maine General Hospital, where Drs. Pendleton and Weeks attended him. An examination showed that he was more seriously injured than at first supposed and that important organs had been crushed. He rapidly sank and at about 5'oclock died. Coroner Gould will hold an inquest today. Mr. Broadhurst recently came here from Nova Scotia and lived on Greenleaf street. He was unmarried. I have photocopied the article, if you would like me to send it to you. Sandra S.Portland, Maine ----- Original Message ----- From: <agbroadhurst@yahoo.com> To: <MECUMBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: [MECUMBER] Tragic Accident Feb 1889 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Broadhurst - Easterbrook - Harrison - Manning - Bell > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JEB.2ACE/528 > > Message Board Post: > > A great uncle Joseph James Broadhurst was killed in Portland on February 13, 1889. The only mention I have of this is in a poem by Emily Rice, published in the Halifax newspaper, that says "... he was killed by falling iron, cut off without a word..." So the question, does anyone have access to news papers in Portland that might have an account of whatever occurred, which we assume from that hint was a construction accident of some sort? It would have appeared in the next edition after February 13, but I don't know if there was a daily paper at that time, or whether it was less frequent. If anyone knows, what is the name of a paper from that time? Does that paper have an archive? > > > ==== MECUMBER Mailing List ==== > Used MECUMBERLAND mailing list for QUERIES? > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >