Thirty year old George Taylor from Upper Cleminson Street in Salford, a Carter, was injured when loading a lorry in a hurry on Rochdake road and a bale weighing one hundred weight fell on him causing serious head injuries and was in a serious condition at the Royal Infirmary.
The tenants of two houses in Moss side saw their roof collapse. The houses were in Heywood street and the wife of the tenant in one of the houses fainted with the shock.
The weather had broken in Manchester with rain forecast and changeable conditions. That afternoon, a violent electrical storm had raged through the city with its centre being over the Royal exchange according to reports although the Manchester Evening News reflected on the fact that sunny June had fully justified its name.
The storm saw the abandonment of the game of cricket at Old Trafford between the the Royal and Stock exchanges.
There was consternation in Withington as the council debated a resolution that mixed bathing be adopted at Withington baths for one day a week.
The Manchester swimming club at Blackfriars had already been doing it for two years at some success but other voices saw it as a move in the wrong direction
Across the continent the royal bodies had returned to Vienna where they had been embalmed and blessed by Archbishop Stadler, the coffins were then sealed and surrounded by foliage plants and candles.
It turned out that the Archduke had been insured for £2.5m and his wife for £1.25m
The Prague journal reported the ad scenes as the news of the deaths was broken to the couples children by their tutors.the children immediately broke down said the paper and their aunt fainted on hearing the news.
The Austrian government meanwhile had decided to request an inquiry by the Serbian government, who had made a statement saying that Serbia like all civilised nations feels keen indignation at the crime whilst attacking Germany for connecting it with this outrage.
As for the arrested conspirators, Gabrinovic who threw the bomb had declared that he could not regret the attempt -the chief point he said was that hey had succeeded in effecting what they had wished whilst Princip who fired the fatal shots had broken down under interrogation both said the paper were under eighteen and therefore could not be sentenced to death.
