... The rope by wdiich it was hung broke, and, falling on the scaffolding on which Lyon was standing, precipitated both to the bottom of the shaft, fall of thirty feet. The unfortunate man was killed instantaneously. ...

... of Morgan, and the kettle being thus misguided, came in contact with scaffolding, and was upset. Shore was thrown out, and falling to the bottom, depth of 15 fathoms, was killed instantaneously. Morgan saved himself by catching the chains, and holding ...

... FIVE KILLED AND S.I WOUND.VI*. A frightful accident occurred on. Tuesday Morning at Hillhead, one of the western suburbs Glasgow. The gable of tenement in the course of erection Suddenly gave way, and eleven men who were stationed on a scaffolding attached ...

... destruction by fire, at Tenby, of tbe vessel Jubilee. A young man, named Masters, has been killed at the Wickham Cement Works, near Rochester, by a plank from some scaffolding falling on him. The body of a lady visitor, aged about sixty years, has been found ...

... administered to the most delicate lady and tendereet infant. FALL A SCAFFOLDING IN ABERDEEN. TWO MEN KILLED. A scaffolding the New County Buildings, Aberdeen, fell on Wednesday, killing two workmen, and indicting; on another injuries so severe that it feared ...

... view. order to execute the work a scaffold was suspended by means of rope from the pit mouth. Shortly after dinner the three men referred to descended the shaft in a kettle, and having stepped from it to the scaffold 1 signalled to the engineman above ...

... hammerman named Andrew Meikle, was killed. He had been temporarily engaged in conveying hutches of coal from the pit-mouth to the coal bing, when, in pushing forward one of the hutches, it fell over the scaffold, drawing Meikle along with it. His skull ...

... being killed. He, along with a neighbour named Fyfe, was standing upon a scaffold, upon which was a large quantity of slates, when gave way, and he was presipitated to the ground from a height of two storeys, the planks forming the scaffolding and the ...

... a hammerman named Andrew Meikle, was killed. He had been temporarily engaged in conveying hutches of coal from the pit-mouth to the coal bing, when, in pushing forward one the hutches, it fell over the scaffold, drawing Meikle along with it. His skull ...

... or contractors—332 killed, 1918 injured ; persons passing over railways at level crossings—4s killed, 18 injured ; trespassers (including suicides)—26s killed, 104 injured; other persons notcomingia above classification —23 killed,6s-injured. The totals ...

... Theatre w ill next week be occupied by the Falkirk Operatic Society in the musical comedy Florodora.” CHILDREN KILLED AT PLAY.—Three children were killed at Portsmouth through a fail of timber at Messrs Lillie’s yard, Mile End. The timber had been recently stacked ...

... inhabitants peri.-bed in the flames. FALL OF A HOUSE. SEVEN WOKE MEN KILLED. GnxNQBLK, Tuesday.—A house in course construction in this t”wn fell in to-day. Seven workmen were killed and seven others injured. ...