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FALL OF A SCAFFOLD AND LOSS OF LIFE

... almost completed, and a scaffold was erected against one of the interior walls for the purpose of build- ing the roof. The mortar had not set, probably in conse- quence of the wet weather, and the wall which supported the scaffold was only four and a half ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ISCOUNT CANNING CREATED AN EARL

... instoneI Stirling. (_g British and Irish Magncetic Telegraph.) FiTAL ACCIDENT.-FIVE KILLED. , alen were killed and eight severely injured 'y The eding down of a scaffold, yesterday morring, at the Veot1inOoter Palaoe Hotel, now in course of t'reotion. ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1859
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT MONKWEARMOUTH COLLIERY

... for thoroughly securing the shaft. For this: purpose scaffoldings had been put up at thee Maudlin seam, 250 feet below the surface, and another at a depth of 180 fathoms. Above the upper scaffolding, the stone at the side of the shaft had shown symptoms ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HARTLEPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE TRUSTEES IN DIFFICULTIES

... eldest of whom is only foor years of nge. SHOCeINO SCAFFOLDING ACCIDENT AT WOLVER- ?? men are now in the South Staffordshire Hospital, suffering f romn the effects of the giving way of some scaffolding at premises that are in course of erection at the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1867
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1397 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CANNIBALISM IN SIERRA LEONE

... forc-e of frontier police, with prisoners and scaffold, accordingly went down to Impii country, which is about five miles from Sherbro, on the Colonial Gor--rnment steamer Countess of Derby. The scaffold was erected in the public street, and the bodiies ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE IRISH LAND BILL

... , These Humarn Leopards' killed at stated periods a native as a sacrifice to their fetish or god. After the victim; was killed, ,a cannibal feast wes held on the body by the members of the society. The man selected to kill the victim is covered with ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 971 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MR GEORGE MANTLE

... Gaines, the . florist, Cummins being cn the roof, and Holgar on i- the scaffolding immnediately unuderrdeath; Cttmini e most imprudently jumped from the roof to the k scaffolding, when the putlock gave way, and both men were precipitated from a height ...

Scotland

... the names hare not reached us.-.North British Mail. DeSTReiNasi AccleoNT.-Two MEN KILLED.--On Tuesday afternoon a very distressing accident, by which two masons were killed, and a third so severely injured that scarcely any hopes are entertained of his ...

EXECUTION IN LEEDS

... placed at short distances apart in the corridor, and as far as the scaffold. The prisoner's hands were pinioned in his cell by the executioner, and thereafter the procession to the scaffold was formed. First came the Governor of the gaol (Mr. Keene), followed ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3234 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

AN ANARCHIST EXECUTED

... wtas a scaffold platform, about four feet high and nine yards square. In the middle of this platform Waee a chair, to the high baok of wh~ich wras attached an iron collar, the instru- ment of death. Franch walked from the cell to the scaffold with faltering ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2028 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

... persons killed and 226 injured- in this division, 1l of tle killed aud 17(, of the inj uted were passengers. Of the latter, 6' were killed and 1S injuredoby ?? between earriagos nnd 'platforms,. viz., 1 killed and 12 injured ,When ?? from, and 4 ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1343 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

A YEAR'S RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

... trespassers, and others, 22 persons were killed and 878 injured, 115 of the killed and 619 of the injured being passengers. Of these 60 were killed and 87 injured by falling between carriages and platforms; 13 were killed and 413 injured by falling on to platforms ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1878
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 12 | Tags: News