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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT

... contractors, employed upon the scaffolding which had been raised for constructing toe roof, wheu a prop, which tem- porality supported one of the tie-beams, shifting suddenly, the latter gave way, and precipitated tbe scaffolding which was resting upon it> ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1822
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Mr. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. — A new edition has been published to meet the necessities arising out of ..

... through his wife, which ia false. Three Men Killed — On Monday evening a *'iocking accident occurred at Mr. J. Kay's weaving shed, Burnley Wood. A new end is being erected, and eight men were on a scaffold, and had just landed upon it a heavy coning stone ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1857
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CORONERS' INQUESTS

... of P. Conner, aged 34, in the employ of Mr. Heckett, a builder, of Hail- lowstreet. Burton-crescent, who wus killed by falling from i scaffolding in Belgrave-street, Argylp-square, Naw-road. The deceased was perfectly sober at the time of the ace iiien: ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1835
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATS AND CROPS

... the defence, submitted that there was case. There was no duty to kill down wild animals. The Borough Surveyor was called and stated that in 1905 up to August about a thousand rats were killed, and from August to December another thousand, at this spot. man ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1906
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 899 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CORONER'S INQUEST

... Southwark, in ihe Com- ?? Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of TTenry Cuiley, a painter's labourer, who was killed by falling from a scaffold in St. Paul's Cathedral. George Plower, a painter, residing at the Black Lion and Apple-Tree, St. Martins-lane ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1821
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“ The Argument.”

... tyrant. chance incident—most cleverly imagined by the dramatist —apprises him of her treachery and his own misery. He will kill her paramour, and though he does not yet know bis name, Dolores believes that discovery cannot tarry. To save her lover she ...

Published: Tuesday 12 March 1901
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 484 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION

... family of the sufferer. Mr. Deputy Cork wondered that there had not been a '■ dozen people killed instead of one. Mr. Heywood (surveyor to the Court) said the scaffold 1 was as sufficient as it could possibly be, and the chance of j accident from it was much ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1857
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1310 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXHIBITION

... St. DunstnaVroad, fell from scaffolding and was killed. The inquest was held yesterday Hammersmith by Mr. C. Lux moor© Drew. Thomas Watson, fellow workman, said thnt Ulployand he were standing on the pole which the scaffold was placed order move plank ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1908
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TERRIRLE PIT-CAGE ACCIDENTS. NINE LIVES LOST NEAR BOLTON

... contact with a timber scaffold. This waa splintered, and the cage then fell down into what is called the dib-hole.” Here there was 70ft. of water, and in this tho men imprisoned within tho cage were drowned. Eight of tho nine killed are A. Smith, John ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1907
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—DREADFUL LOSS o/LIFE

... Sun. Fatal Scaffold Accident. — On Saturday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of William Spurting, aged sixty nine, a maater bricklayer. On the 12th inst., deceased and hia men were standing on a scaffold twenty feet ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1844
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHOCKING ACCIDENT at the COLONIAL-.OFFICE.. -»-

... Brodie, aged 19, who was killed under the follow- ing circumstances : — Thomas Dorrington, a bricklayer, said on Thursday last he was engaged on the works iv course of construction for the Colonial-office. He stood on a scaffold and saw the deceased wheeling ...

Published: Tuesday 18 February 1873
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BILLIARDS

... Roberts, 7,992. Fatai, Scaffold Accident. — A skeleton scaf- fold erected in connection with the North British Rail- way Hotel being built at the Waverley Station, Edinburgh, collapsed yesterday morning during a gale of wind. The scaffold bad been erected to ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1898
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 3 | Tags: none