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FIREMAN PEER

... FIREMAN PEER. DEATH OF EARL OF EGMONT. The Earl of Egmont died on Thursday at Thames Ditton from neuritis, after an illness lasting only three days. He was fifty-four years of age, and succeeded his cousin in 1897. He was a nobleman with a most romantic ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HEIRESS ACTS AS FIREMAN

... works in the foundry for sixteen shillings weekly. ITALY'S GRAND OLD MAN, SIGNOR SANARDILLI DIES OP CANCER. Signor Zanardelli, the well-known Italian statesman, died on Saturday night at the Villa Maderno. near Brescia, of cancer of the stomach. In himit:AV ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIREMAN'S TERRIBLE FALL

... FIREMAN'S TERRIBLE FALL A destructive fire broke out at the Longton (Staffs.) China Factory on Sunday, and raged fiercely during the night. As there was a danger of other buildings becoming involved, • fireman, named William Merry, volunteered to go up ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EX-FIREMAN LEAVES £66.000

... EX-FIREMAN LEAVES £66.000. The will of Mr. Frederick Collins. of Sherwood Rise, Nottingham. who died last month at the age of seventy-five, reveals a remarkable story of industry and ability. Mr. Collins began work ass railway fireman, and was afterwards ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1913
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIED ON HIS ENGINE

... DIED ON HIS ENGINE. Some important medical evidence was given at a coroner's inquiry at Leicester on Monday concerning the death of an engine-driver who died suddenly on the foot-plate of his engine. The driver was Thomas Wilkins,.aged 53, and the tragic ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIED AT HIS POST

... and fell into his fireman's arms. Fortunately the train was already at a standstill. Had the seizure occurred during the run a disaster must have followed. Several witnesses, including a doctor, expressed the 'belief that Shepherd died on the footplate ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOXER COLLAPSES ADD DIES

... BOXER COLLAPSES ADD DIES. After boxing well against another flyweight, George Freeman, at the Judean Club, Whitechapel, on Sunday night for five rounds, Jim Burrows collapsed, and died shortly afterwards. The two men were contesting a ten-round match ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1913
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2493 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A DEAN DIES IN HIS CHAIR

... A DEAN DIES IN HIS CHAIR. The Church of England in Walee has sustained a severe loss by the death of the Dean of Bangor, Canon John Pryce, who died on Saturday at the age of seventy-five. In January he suffered from an affection of the heart, and was ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF. Tragedies and Disasters. Captain Sharpley, of the British steernq Hillglen, died suddenly on ..

... fanned the flames, and she was so terribly burned that she died within four hours. David Thomas, one of the four men injured in the explosion at Duffryn Tinplate Works, Morriston, Glamorganshire, died is Swansea Hospital on Friday. The Thornton Heath police ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEADLY DAFFODILS

... d son of a fireman at a Barrow-in-Furness steel works, is supposed to have been caused by daffodils. The boy gathered a quantity of the flowers while out for a walk, and ate some of them. When he reached his home he was taken ill, and died before a doctor ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEATH OF A HERO

... DEATH OF A HERO. James Green, colliery fireman, Abram. near \Violin, who was awarded the Edward medal for conspicuous bravery at the flooding disaster at Bamfurlong Colliery, has died before he could receive the decoration. He was seised with serious ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FATAL FALL FROM ENGINE

... was afterwards found standing on the line is dazed condition and minus one of his fingers. His fireman. was unable to throw any light on Digweed'a fail. He died in Chasing . Cores Hospital from an injury to the brain. A verdict of Accidental death was ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 6 | Tags: none