The following is a note to Chapter 21 of the author's Navvyman.
Forty men were killed outright when the new dock entrance in Newport, South Wales, caved in. One man wasn't supposed to be there at all: he'd dropped his measuring rule and gone down to find it. Another man and a boy lay alive alongside a corpse all day and night. The timbers gave way and killed them both just as they were about to be saved.
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