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15 WORKXERS HURLED TO DEATH. Bridge Collapscs. ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR THE VICTIMS. From Our Own Correspondent

... the collapse last evening of a rail wav bridze in process of construction near Brail. in the Engadine, fifteen workmen were killed and twelve seriously injured. The brideze is a e, with a main snan of 140 feet over a ravine 200 feet deen, down which rushes ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

e ] ‘GHTIBRIDGE'S PLIGHT

... broken, and a wooden ring woes fractured. A verdiet ®as returned of “ Accidentally killed by falling down the tunncl shaft, through an unforeseen defect in the scaffolding.” The Coroner (Mr. Ma:tland) commended Rhodes for his plucky conduet in going to ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Neither villein nor serf _h.:d any

... freedom itself * about that little arrangement. * * . In {he summer and autimn of 1381 more than 7.000 men perished on the scaffold or in the field fcr trying to get the first element of liberty into their lives. There was o3¢ William Grindecobbe, who had ...

Published: Tuesday 28 November 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOOKING DEATH IN THE FACE. STRUGGLE WITH AN ARMED, BURGLAR. ° Plucky Woman. LIFE SENTENCE FOR A DESPERATE CRIMINAL

... hall ‘s practically | UhH . R . finished. Enclosed in a forest of derricks| Mr. Bodkin, in stating the case for tha and scaffolding, the immense red and m.'lm“’' said that on the might of 23 huil dominates everything in the vicinity, | December and ...

Published: Monday 16 January 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1911 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

shamming Death. ‘REFORM ' BILL PASSES ITS SECOND READING

... King. Sir Robert eaid that the only did not execute it. case which the judge left to the jury was “If lamto be taken to the scaffold I|that of I‘3 Grove. Mrs. Weet, who had would prefer to be bauged.” been invited during the reign of the late “1{ you give ...

Published: Tuesday 23 May 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2094 | Page: 1 | Tags: none