... 36, who was killed by the late scaffold accident, erected at the Reform Club-house, Pall-mall, on the afternoon of Thursday. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental death, owing to the improper timber used in the erection of the scaffold being selected ...

... the scaffolding. He hoped no more lives would be:losuin this business. The scaffold in question was the_ most insecure of any one in the building, and he thought there was riot:due precautiontakeri. • • . The Jury said they had 'seen the scaffold,' and ...

... Maras did not come that day to work, as they had no scaffolding to go on with the building, and they were again disappointed. This was on a Tuesday. John Keogh then said they would begin their work on the Monday after, and he appointed Sunday night to ...

... standing on the scaffolding, they being the two scaffolders. Deceased was quite sober at that time. About ten minutes afterwards 'Witness was still in the neighbourhood, and heard the noise of the fall of the first two houses. The scaffold witness had spoken ...

... DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR lIALSHAW MOOR.—FOUR PERSONS KILLED. (From the Manchester Times.) An inquest was held yesterday (Thursday), before W. S. Rutter, Esq., coroner, at the Unicorn Inn, Kersley, on t i h ij e s bodies of James Cowsill, aged forty, William ...

... morniurta melancholy accident happened at Norwood; here the new church is building. There peat number of men standing upon tt scaffold, nearly sixty feet from the ground ; when a stone, weighing upwards of a ton, was by means of a holly .; it was just lifted ...

... the principal rooms gave way this evening, in iti fall carrying away the joists of the room. It is reported that o ne man is killed and several more dreadfully injured. Dr. Cass, surgeon to the Palace, has been sent for express to attend the sufferers. In ...

... of bricks and snorter upon the scaffold. All the men were not assembled drinking beer ; the deceased was the only person who had drank beer; he was in the act of drinking beer when the scaffolding gave way. The scaffolding had been previously used as ...

... a bricklayer ; last Wednesday, witness and the deetasied were at work in Broriiptott: there was a scaffold outside the ;house; they were on the scaffold at work, when', onerif the putlogs aud(tvoly broke, and the seaf fold fell with theirt; the deceased ...

... contractors, etnployed upon the scaffolding which had been raised for constructing, the roof, when a prop, which temporalily supported one of the tie-beams, shifting suddenly, the latter gave way, and precipitated the scaffolding which was resting upon it, ...

... caused by his having fallen with a certain scaffold, and that the said schffuld did fall and break down owing to the sudden breaking of a certain pole, and that the said pole was unsound and unfit for use in a scaffold, and broke by means of its decay at a ...

... verdict, That the deceased died from mortal injuries of his body caused by his having fallen with a certain scaffold, and that the said scaffold did fall and break down owing to the sudden breaking of a certain pole, an d that the said pole was unsound ...