ST. GEORGE, N.B.,
Jan. 14 - (Special) - One man was killed and two others were injured
seriously, with one not expected to survive, late this afternoon when the truck,
in which they and eight other men were being driven from the airport works at
Pennfield to their boarding house at Pocologan, left the highway and turned over
in a ditch.
The man who lost his life was Louis Lloyd, 35, son of John
and the late Mrs. Lloyd, Crow Harbor, Charlotte County. Those injured and now in
Chipman Memorial Hospital at St. Stephen are Allan McCullough, St. Andrews, and
Jack McCarthy, Fairville. McCullough is the more seriously injured of the two
and late tonight it was said that his chances for recovery are slim. All men in
the truck when the accident occurred were members of a gang of the New Brunswick
Electric Power Commission engaged at airport work at Pennfield.
Their own truck out of commission, the men were being taken
from the airport in a truck of the New Brunswick Telephone Co., Limited, driven
by Cecil Colwell, Saint John, which had been sent to the airport yesterday to
assist the gang in placing poles for the installation of the lighting system.
Attached to the truck is a compressor which had been used during the day in
breaking the frozen ground for the placement of the electric light poles. The
day's work through, the men boarded the truck and left for their Pocologan
boarding house. Most of the men were in the rear of the machine and had covered
themselves with a tarpaulin to break the severe wind blowing across the country
in the late afternoon. The truck had reached Pennfield Ridge near the residence
of George Baten when the steering gear is said to have locked. The machine took
in the ditch and ran along it for several feet, finally toppling over, the
weight of the compressor probably causing it to turn over more rapidly.
Is Pinned Down
Lloyd was pinned down
and although his companions freed him he died of his injuries while being taken
to the office of Dr. F.V. Maxwell, St. George. McCullough and McCarthy, who were
also found to have been injured, were removed to hospital in St. Stephen by Dr.
Maxwell, who is also coroner for the district.
It had not been decided tonight whether an inquest would be or
not into the death of Lloyd, decision awaiting the outcome of the condition of
McCullough.
Lloyd is survived by his father, two sisters, Grace, Moose Mountain,
Carleton County, and Ella, at home, and five brothers, William, Digby, N.S., Matthew, a member
of the Saint John Fusiliers, Albert, Lockeport, N.S., Vernon, Seelye's Cove, and Basil, at
home.
Other men in the truck escaped injury.
SOURCE: The Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB) - January 15, 1941.
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