... Quarter, was killed in Xo. pit, iu course of being sank Messia Colin Dunlop & Co. Along with two workmen, he was standing scaffold about 40 fathoms dewn the shaft, waiting for the pit-headsman to lower the cranerope, by which the scaffold was to be drawn ...

... Low Quarter, was killed in No. pit, in course being sunk by Messrs Colin Dunlop Co. Along with two workmen, he was standing on scaffold about fathoms down the shaft, waiting for the pit-headsman to lower the cranerope, which the scaffold was drawn up. There ...

... an old mine, and it appears that while deceased was placing a hutch upon the scaffold it gave way, and he was precipitated to the bottom the shaft and instantaneously killed. The body was recovered about five minutes after the accident took place, and ...

... weighing about 15 cwt., fell from the roof and killed him instantaneously. Deceased was about thirty years of age. —On Thursday morning, James Black, pit-sinker, West Calder, was j thrown off scaffolding which had been suspended in the shaft of a pit ...

... Evening. SHOCKING SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN BERLIN. SIX MEN KILLED AND THREE INJURED. The scaffolding erected before hospital which is being renovated fell to-day while work was going on, and six men, including the architect, were killed, three others being ...

... Anderson, filler, aged yeara, residing Brown Square, was killed, and Thomas Crawford, also filler, residing in Iron Work Row, Langloan, was seriously injured. It appears that the screw one side the scaffold, where the chain is joined it, some unaccountable means ...

... the scaffold was at all in a dangerous state, being composed of strong upright poles, which are rendered secure by long cross pieces of timber firmly wedged to the brickwork and tied with thick cords. They were in the act of running the scaffold up some ...

... ;*MoMend, West Calder, the * »o. shale pit, fatho£ OSe ° commencing work ' ° re mistook tbe tlf * a scaffolding, and 15fah ° Wn aud filing to the d h ;!^ killed i»*tantane- chains, ...

... ROOF Caused by Collapse of Scaffolding While engaged removing slates from the roof of a two-storey and attic building at Falkirk on Tuesday forenoon, a workman fell a distance of over thirty feet to the ground when the scaffolding on which he was standing ...

... amusing themselves ou the scaffold iug at No. Shieldmuir coal pit, Wishaw, pushing the empty 'tubs backwards and forwards,[one of them, named John Harris, ten years of age, fell the landing, a distance of twenty feet and was killed. ...

... stone, weighing about 15 cwt., fell from the roof and killed him instantaneously, Deceased was about thirty years of age.—On Thursday week, James Black, pit-sinker, West Calder, was thrown off a scaffolding which had been suspended in the shaft pit in which ...

... woman and Clews had cohabited, but became jealous, and lay in wait for her with hatchet, with which he killed her. The culprit walked finuly the scaffold, and died apparently instantaneously. Berry was the executioner. ...