The Carl

The libelant, on Saturday, the twenty-eighth of May, 1881, foil through the fore-hatch of the lower deck of the ship Carl, by which he sustained severe injuries. He was one of about a dozen men who had been employed by the consignee of a largo quantity of bottles, which had been stowed between-decks, to take them from the straw in which they were packed and put them in crates to be hoisted through the main hatch. The libelant had been engaged in this work during all the week preceding. There were three hatches in the main deck, and three immediately beneath them of the same size in the lower…