ST. GEORGE, N.B.,
Jan. 15 - Decision was reached today to hold an inquest here Friday morning
into the death of three men, fatally injured when a truck left the highway at
Pennfield Ridge late yesterday afternoon and turned over in a ditch.
Allan McCullough, St. Andrews, died in hospital at St.
Stephen late last night and the death of John (Jack) McCarthy, 40, Fairville,
occurred in the same hospital this morning. Both suffered critical internal
injuries. Louis Lloyd, 35, Crow Harbor, Charlotte County, died shortly after the
accident.
8 Escape Unharmed
The other eight men in
the truck escaped injury. Members of a New Brunswick Electric Power Commission
gang engaged in airport construction work at Pennfield were being driven to
their boarding house at Pocologan when the accident occurred.
Dr. F.V. Maxwell, coroner, will preside at the inquest Friday.
Besides his wife, formerly Miss Nora Stevens, Mr. McCarthy is
survived by two sons, Robert and Paul, at home; a sister, Mrs. James Oliver,
West Saint John, and a brother, Charles, Fairville. He was a member of St.
Rose's Parish and had a wide circle of friends in Fairville and vicinity. He was
a son of the late Joseph and Mary Ellen McCarthy. The funeral will be held at
8:30 o'clock on Saturday morning from the residence of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevens, Fairville, to St. Rose's Church for high mass of requiem at 9
o'clock. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr. McCullough, who was a resident of St. Andrews, is
survived by his wife and two children. Funeral arrangements were not completed
tonight.
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.
SOURCE: The Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, NB) - January 16, 1941.
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