... has been the cause of more than one accident. You will remember that when he appeared at Dublin, two men were killed while erecting the scaffold to which his rope was to be attached. On Monday there was another accident. One of the workmen at the Crystal ...

... SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN THE CITY. On Thursday, about cloven o’clock, a fearful .r* ronco took place in Great Winchcstcr-strcct, City, o consequence of tho fall of tho upper part of a very ostensive building, now in course of erection for Aldcrmn- S.Watcrlow ...

... drift a scaffold of timber was formed for tho purpose of turning the air into the B pit, and on tho top of this scaffold several hundred tons of rubbish were laid, the whole forming a solid platform several yards thick. Above this scaffold and about ...

... Close to the roof scaffolding had been fixed (this being a separate contract) a builder named Holmes, of Birmingham. This scaffold was at a height of about fifty ftet from the level of the rails beneath. The spot where the scaffolding gave way was, fortunately ...

... OF THE LOVERS KILLED BY LIGHTNING. On afUmoon the Lintrpool Mercury) the village at Stauuingley, Torkahire, was the one of the moot impresoive spectacles ever seen that place, scene witnessed by an immense crowd of people, numbering many thousands, who ...

... SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENT. TWO MEN KILLED AND TWO INJURED Shortly before one o’clock on Wednesday morning a colliery accident, which two persons lost their lives and two others were injured, took place at Messrs. Mercer and Evans’s Parklane Colliery, ...

... THE DOWNHAM MARKET BONE KILLS & ABTIETOIAL NAME WORKS. The Executors of the late Jared Terrett Hunt, I Esq., offer for Sale by Private Contract, with possession at Christmas, E LEASE AND GOODWILL of that old I eetablished and reunerative business, well ...

... A Farmer Killed 801 l Ippirng. A sad and fatal accident occurred on Saturday bywhich Mr. Edward Symes, extensive farmer aft. Wintrywood Park, Eppiog, aged 74, has lost life, having died on Saturday from injnriea received from his bull, three-and-a«balf ...

... TUESDAY, JUNE th 18G1. ACCI :nces. The Coantewi Cornet and another lady were recently killed when travelling from Namur to owing the train ronniog off the line. A kitchen-maid, the aerrice of the Bishop of Rocbeater, has been committed for trial on a ...

... distance of about 15 ft , and it was thought that, if not killed, he must at all events be considerably injured by the fall. About 20 minutes after the occurrence a workman ap- peared on the scaffold and replaced the drop, and soon after- wards re-appeared ...

... Their cries were heartrending. The plasterers, and labourers who were on the front scaffold fared but little belter. The front wall in fulling carried away the scaffolding and the men who were on it fell to the ground on the shattered brickwork with fearful ...

... working upon scaffold at distance of about 30 feet from the ground. Deceased, while upon the scaffold, leaned against a newly-laid moulding, and pushed it so that it fell over on to the scaffold. The weight of the moulding broke the scaffold where deceased ...