Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1906 — THIRTY LABORERS HURT [ARTICLE]

THIRTY LABORERS HURT

Trestle Gives Way and Lets Them Down Forty Feet—No Probable Fatalities. Duluth, April 20. —Thirty laborers were more or less seriously injured here by the giving away of a trestle that connects ore docks No. 1 and No. 2, of the Duluth. Messabe and Northern railway. The accident happened when about 100 men. applicants for positions on the docks, were crowding to get to the foreman, who was doing the hiring. In the rush a portion of the rail on the trestle gave way, thirty of the men being precipitated to the ground below, a distance of about forty feet. AH of the injured were taken to local hospitals. It is thought none will die.