Crosshaven woman killed in car crash, and dock strike hits Cork city trade
A CARRIGALINE motorist was accused in the courthouse of causing the death of a woman, the Echo reported 100 years ago today, on Saturday, September 8, 1923.
At a special hearing, Allen J. Wylie was charged with having on June 10 caused the death of Mary Evelyn Watson, of The Tower, Crosshaven.
Patrick Dunlea deposed that, moments before the crash a car passed him at a fairly fast rate of speed. Thomas Lannigan said he was travelling towards Crosshaven in a Ford when, on rounding the bend at Kilnagleary Bridge, he came upon the scene of the accident. He saw a motorcycle and sidecar practically in the water table on the left side and a car diagonally across the road. A man was lying on the road and a lady was lying inside the fence unconscious. A second lady was kneeling beside her and holding her head.
He brought them to a doctor in Crosshaven, then to the South Infirmary. Dr G.F. Hegarty examined Mary Evelyn Watson when brought to the hospital. She was completely unconscious and had a wound to the head.
There was no complete fracture but serious effusion from the brain and haemorrhage. There were also compound fractures to both bones of the right forearm.
Her condition was practically hopeless from the start and she died on June 12. The trial continues.
A deputation of millers met the Port of Cork grain importers yesterday in relation to the grain cargoes waiting in the Lower Harbour. The millers said it would be impossible for them to continue milling if the dock strike is not quickly resolved.
In order to keep going, they will have to start purchasing wheat in small quantities at retail prices from English ports and close for periods.
The misery which is being caused need not be elaborated upon as it is too well known. For the sake of the people of Cork, it can only be hoped our quaysides will soon be busy again with shipping from all around the world before irretrievable damage is done.
J.J. Walsh TD arrived from Dublin yesterday after two meetings with General Mulcahy on the matter of unemployment insurance for demobilised men.
Some 500 of these have communicated with him on this and other matters. He said immediate attention is being given to their grievances.
He has also highlighted to the Department of Industry and Commerce the inadequacy of facilities in Cork for the weekly payment of unemployment assistance.
He said a settlement is urgent as Cork has suffered severely over the past three years and hard work and mutual co-operation are badly needed to restore economic life.
The people are crying out for a cessation of disturbances which have brought such privation and misery to the city.
Mr Crowley presided at a meeting of Cork Industrial Development Association and reported the Ministry of Industry and Commerce acknowledged receipt of the Haulbowline Dockyard Report. It is hoped the dockyard will be again put in full swing employing thousands of hands, as promised in the election speech of J.J. Walsh T.D.
The Italian Consul-General informed the Association that an International Exhibition of Dairy Products in Milan in November will provide an ideal opportunity for showcasing and for learning for Irish farming organisations and co-operative creameries.
Engineering firms interested in a road sweeping machine patented by Mrs M Doyle, of Friar Street, Youghal, are requested to make contact with the Association. The patent claims to embody all the improvements incorporated in a motor-driven machine. A working model in Youghal may be inspected. It includes a rotary blower, and inlet and outlet pipes situated inches above the road surface.
Yesterday it was all so lovely. Cigarettes, sand shoes, sunshine, sea smiles, stardust, moonlore, cloud shadows, sighs and silent stretches of sentiment-strewn shores filled the time in those Arcadian climes beyond the city’s rim.
But the sojourn was as brief as it was sweet, and the scents, the trailing visions, the expiring ecstasies that still remain serve but to make more dismal these desks and chairs and paper piles - this prison house that looks out upon tram tracks and traffic.
And so, in the golden eve of September, the sad faces, reminiscent and dreamful, fill the suburban silent places, and are sometimes lighted with a sudden glow as some passing inspiration trembles for a moment into the shape of an existence moulded according to the heart’s desire. There’s nothing half so sweet in life as the texture of a dream.
The Local Government Commissioners invite tenders for the supply of a light motor ambulance for the Cork Union.
