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Show I Archbishop Corrigan Hurt in Church. New York, Feb. 23. It has been made I public that Archbishop Corrigan is confined to his room with painful injuries in-juries which he received Thursday evening last at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Workingmen have been erecting a wooden partition in the rear of the building prior to tearing out the permanent perm-anent wall and to joining the cathedral with the Kelly memorial, which is being be-ing erected. It is the archbishop's custom to enter en-ter tha cathedral for private devotion about 8 o'clock in the evening. On the day when he received his injuries workmen had left unguarded a big hole in the lloor. The archbishop stumbled into this. He caught himself when he had slipped Jh rough the floor up to his arms. Very few persons were in the cathedral at the time. The archbishop managed to get back to his residence. He was seriously bruised and shaken up and his physician was called in. He d.scovered that the archbishop's right r.H V.n Loon Kollr ufanVitwl Thoro are also some ugly scratches on his body. The archbishop could not officiate at any of the services at the cathedral today. to-day. He has been forbidden to leave the houss until Tuesday next. |