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?