... back of the court and paid the money. WORKMAN KILLED. WTST STORY OF COLLAPSE OF CONCRETE ROOF, At the inquest yesterday on Charles! William Davis, aged 49, carpenter, of Highfield-road, Smethwick, who was' killed on Tuesday at the works of the Midland Motor ...

... grab hold of the scaffold again—my knees had gone a bit watery. Then my mates gathered round. They seemed to find it hard to believe that I was still alive. That's how I feel about it too. By all the rules I should have been killed as soon as I hit ...

... MAN FALLS FORTY FEET FROM SCAFFOLDING. A distressing fatality occurred yesterday at Eadie's Brewery, Burton. William Withers, aged was oa a scaffolding forty feet high, with his employer. Sir. Dictinson, clearing a trough on top of the building. The plank ...

... from a fractured spine. Leonard Allsopp, of Station-road.' Stoke Golding, a stone mason and scaffolder, stated that he and Bourne were dismantling a steel scaffold from the tower with a pulley block and rope. Allsopp was above and Bourne below. He shouted ...

... the Bhine, baa fallen in consequence of a laden vessel having come into collision with the scaffolding of the construction. About forty workmen have been killed and twenty wounded in this catastrophe. This accident will retard for six months the completion ...

... Painter’s Fatal Fall Slipping from the scaffolding on which he was working 30ft. above the ground yesterday, a Birmingham painter fell and was killed instantly. He was Richard Clifford Dodds, aged 49, of 69, Miles-street, Small Heath. At the time of the ...

... yesterday. John Steele, Jorema,p. and George Edward Winyara were killed, and live other workmen lie in a critical condition at Wrexham Infirmary. Evidence was given of the tilting of the scaffolding by which the men were thrown down the shaft , and the inquest ...

... LLED BY GIRDER. llenhall Accident Due to High Wind. PSE OF SCAFFOLD. cLrc.nmgt&nres of the picture house iter WiUenhalt Monday, three men were injured by the fall hree girders and one killed, were ired into yesterday the Wolverptou Borough Conner. The ...

... CRUSHED TO DEATH. KILLED IN A MINE BY FALLING PUMP. During sinking operations at the Crown Colhery. near Lianelly, yesterday afternoon, a rope snapped, a heavy pump fell upon a group of men in the shaft below. Two of them were killed outright. and two ...

... Leer concerned in the death of nthal Disaster at German Workr. Eleven men have been killed, thirty-five injured, and four are missing as the result of 4urne iron scaffolding collapsing in an engineroom at the Frauken. Power Works, Nuremberg. ...

... heard in which John William Hall, a scaffolder, of Portland-street, claimed £6O compensation from Reuben . Craddock and Sons, Ltd., of Wisemore, Walsall, hi• platers, for the death of Mary Hall (his daughter), who was killed in an accident at respondents' ...

... the dooring ni the scaffold. He soon recovered, however. Andrew damped on nis' ba'k on the seaffold, and witness. when he was sufficiently rocereed. ran down the ladder in seereh of help. He did 1101 Sr, tiarsland fall off the scaffold, but felt his foot ...