SIX MEN KILLED BY THE FALLING OF A BBIDGK

... chalk, and build- ing the brickwork upon the chalk abut- ments. The bridge was nearly completed some weeks since, but a. doubt of its stability appears to have been generally entertained. An extensive crack in the brickwork having shown itself, reports ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE BLACKWALL .RAILWAY

... carried along, they came with a fearful crash against the coping or wall of the line and carried away a large portion of the brickwork. The engine driver as soon as he felt the extra strain, or the drag, did all he could to stop the train; but as goods engines ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1863
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE FALL OF A BRIDGE AND LOSS OF SIX LIVES AT CARSHALTON-HILL

... enable workmen to get at and strike the centring and point the brickwork. The centring was struck on Tuesday f last, and the men were in the little galleries preparing to a point the brickwork on Saturday, when the bridge fell, the fall being of course only ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1866
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CROYDON

... o'clock a locomotive with a chain attached was employed to pull down the brickwork, which consisted of two small arches used as abutments to the centre arch, which was also brickwork. Preparations for a grand haul had been made, and a number of men were ...

Published: Sunday 02 April 1865
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

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... length of brickwork. During the past few weeks great progress has been made in the execution^ of the w ork. The whole of the bridges between King's-cross and Acton-street, Gray's- inn-road, have been completed, as well as the whole of the brickwork. The ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1862
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT

... carried along, the cant with a fearful crash against the coping or wai of the linae and carried away a large portion of the brickwork. The engine-driver, as soon as he felt the eatra strain or drag, did all he could to bring the train to' a stoppage, but ...

Published: Sunday 15 February 1863
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 608 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ARMSTRONG v. MARTELLO

... yards, the projectiles emiloyed were partly solid shot and partly percussion shells. The tower was built of very strong brickwork, the thickness of the walils being 7 feet 3 inches on the land side, and 9 feet on the side-next the sea. It mea- sured 48 ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT

... to Stepney Junction the trucks came in contact with the coping of the wall of the rail- way, and a large quantity of the brickwork was knocked to the ground. The engine- driver, as soon as he felt the extra strain or drag, did all he could to bring the ...

Published: Sunday 15 February 1863
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

SERIOUS COLLIERY ACCIDENTS NEAR WIGAN

... are established with the deeper mines, At the time above-named, from some unexplained cause, a couple of yards- of the brickwork hn the deep shaft gave way at one side about 40 yards from the surface, and, falineg to the bottom, of counre did very c ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOODERIDGE

... natned Rlichaird Tyler werC* at work down the well at the time, and to hasten the job the former ordered Pt portioa of the brickwork to be removed;. this hadl hardly been effectedl whiei thle side of the well aave way, and sonie 30 feet of thle sand, with ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1863
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE BLACK WALL RAILWAY

... tha contents of the wagons-cheese, flour, and other merchandise. The permanent way was much torn up, and a heavy piece of brickwork at the Bow-common-bridge, where a line ot rails runs in, had been shivered by one of the trucks which had dashed against ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HIGH DEATH RATE IN THE NORTHWEST DISTRICT OF THE CITY

... Burobank drill ground, I hod occasion to go through Holyrood Crescent, past the brickwork at the bhcl i.f it, and alung the North Woodside Rliad. The vbole spaco between the brickwork arid Wilton Crescent wa0 dar k with dense smoke cauted by the firing of the ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1869
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 6 | Tags: News