... SIX MEN KILLED. A serious accident occurred during last Tuesday morning at the new coal pit, Tyldesley, owned by M r . W. Ramadan. As the cage was being wound up the rope brake, and six men were killed. A later telegram says: Two of the bodies have been ...

... (witness's) opinion it was a pare accident, and no one was to blame. The scaffold on which deceased was working was an ordinary one.—ln answer to the foreman, witness said the scaffold was a single one, and consisted of three planks placed on runners, which ...

... were working from a 35 ft high mobile scaffold which had outnggers to make it stable when it was in position. . . Two labourers were pushing the scaffold upend down while the other two men stayed on top of the scaffold. said Mr. Gallop But when they pushed ...

... Man Killed by Fall from Coleshill Factory Roof CIRCUMSTANCES REMAIN A MYSTERY WHILE putting in glass on the roof of a new factory in Station Road. Coleshill. a glazier fell through the roof and received fatal injuries. But, a Birmingham inquest jury was ...

... position of the scaffolding bad been altered a few minutes previously. The man who assisted the deceased was about two yards from the scaffolding at the time, and had a very narrow escape, as he had only a moment before left the scaffold for the purpose ...

... took place at Winshester, and a newly designed scaffold was used. The men both passed the night well, and partook of breakfast. They submitted to the pinioning with great firmness, and walked to the scaffold and took their places upon the drop without the ...

... with • gun, which was discharged, killing the father. For the defence it was alleged that the weapon went off accidentally. Soott was the executioner. Kelly partook of no breakfast. He walkad steadily to the scaffold, but showed great emotion. Reporters ...

... 'No go' play sites warning THE growing number of children killed or injured on building sites has horrified safety chiefs. Now schools are being urged to Join in a save lives' . campaign launched this week It must be brought home to youngsters that c ...

... EXECUTION AT CARLISLE. William Hunter, who sentenced to death at the last Cumberland Aasizes for killing the daughter of a woman with whom he was living, was hanged on Monday morning at Carlisle Gaol. The culprit was formerly a blacksmith; but for three ...

... a little SS she walked to the scaffold between the warders. She wee sobbing and praying the whole of the time, heard to say, Oh, my God in heaven, Lord have mercy on my soul. She sobbed as she stepped on the scaffold, but stood firmly whilst she was ...

... autontobtlism. It states that during the month of 44 persons were killed and 774 injured by wages aoddents; 18 killed and 218 injured by railways; 4 killed sad 124 Jejuna by bicycles, and only 6 killed and Kt injured by automobiles. The seaual cycle parade at ...

... husband, Samuel Churchill, at Knowle St. Giles, near Chard, on the 4th of March last. The prisoner, it will be remembered, killed the old man with a bill-hook, in order to prevent him altering a will he had made in favour of her son, by the deceased, born ...