At eight o'clock this morning, Patrick Breen, of Green lane and York street, and Charles Slavin, of 39 Hudson avenue, while working in the coal yard at the foot of Adams street, were severely injured by the falling upon them of an iron coal hod. They were attended by the ambulance surgeon, and removed to the City Hospital.
Brooklyn (New York) Daily Eagle, September 23, 1880.
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