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SCAFFOLD ACOIDENT IN.CORNWALL

... SCAFFOLD A COI DENT IN CORNWALL. TWELVE MEN KILLED. At 11.30 on Tuesday morning, by the collapse of some scaffolding at Coldrenick Viaduct, just outside Menheniot Station, on the Cornwall Railway, twelve men were pre- cipitated 150 feet to the ground ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1897
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ANOTHER ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN.KILLED

... ANOTHER ACCIDENT.— TWO MEN KILLED. A sad accident occurred on Friday, at Messrs. Truman and Manbury's brewers. Brick-lane Spitalsfields. A scaffolding upon which a num- ber of workmen were employed gavo way, and two men, named Henry Burbridge, aged 20 ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1871
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO HUMAN LEOPARDS.HANGED

... s. S These Human Leopards killed, at stated periods, a native as a sacrifice to tbeir fetish or god. After thevictim was killed a cannibal was held on the body by the members of the Society. Tho man selected to kill the fictiin is covered with a leopard ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1896
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CATASTROPHE ON THE RHINE

... the Rhine, has fallen, in consequence of a laden vessel baying 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 ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1869
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CANNIBALISM IN WEST AFRTCA

... force of frontier police with the prisoners and a scaffold accordingly went down to the Imperi country, which is about 50 miles from Sherbro, on the Colonial Government steamer, Countess of Derby. The scaffold was erected in the public streets, and the bodies ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1895
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LECTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE.WIDOW AND ORPHANS OF THE LATE.ALFRED GIBBS

... of which will be applied to the re- lief of the widow and family of the late Alfred Gibbs, who was recently killed by falling from a scaffold at the top of the Grange. The Rev. J. Lakes will preside. The doors will open at 7 o'clock, and the lecture commence ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1869
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LECTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE.WIDOW AND ORPHANS OF THE LATE.ALFRED GIBBS

... of which will be applied to the re- lief of the widow and family of the late Alfred Gibbs, who was recently killed by falling from a scaffold at tho top of the Grange. The Rev J. Lakes will preside. The doors will open at 7 o'olock, and the lecture commence ...

Published: Tuesday 07 September 1869
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DOUBLE EXECUTION

... with a razor. Whelan's crime was com- mitted on a vessel bound from New York to the River Plate. He killed the second mate, and admitted having killed two men on previous occasions. Since their condem- nation both men have appeared penitent and have paid ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1886
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DISASTERS IN AMERICA

... results. While 20 men were engaged on some scaffolding used in erecting the County Count- house at Rockford, Illinois, a portion of the building gave way, and with the scaffolding fell with a heavy crash, killing 12 men and injuring several others. ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1877
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOTORIOUS INN FOR SALE,

... servant. The crimes of the trio were eventually discovered, and they all perished on a scaffold erected in front of the inn ; but the exact number of travellers they had killed was never found out. The price asked is only 100 francs, a thousand times less, perhaps ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1893
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EXECUTION OF A TRIPLE.MURDERER

... his gaolers, Droll, is it not, that for killing so many people at Tonkin they would have decorated me, while that here for killing only three persons they want to cut off my head. lie walked to the scaffold with a firm tread, plated himself, without ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1891
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

YEAR'S RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. j

... during 1893. It appears that 1,011 persons were killed and 4,109 injured on the railways during the year, aud the numbers show a decrease of 119 and 376 respectively as compared with 1892. Of those killed, 106 were passengers but only 17 of these were ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1894
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 1 | Tags: none