... cracking the walls by the expansion of the heated brickwork ; bat it is not very easy to obtain reliable information respecting the amount of such expansion, and some persons have doubts whether brickwork really expands or contracts when heated. An unusual ...

... cracking the walls by the expansion of the heated brickwork ; but it is not very easy to obtain reliable information respecting the amount of such expansion, and some persons have doubts whether brickwork really expands or contracts when heated. An unusual ...

... the lime had been too thin, and the two top courses of the brickwork had slipped off and fallen upon Payne, or, in looking at his work, he had taken a false step, then clutched at the brickwork to save himself, and had pulled it down upon him. The jury ...

... and part of which lay beneath the new building. Portions of the heavy brickwork fell in on the unfortunate men. George Unicine was knocked down and pinned in by large pieces of brickwork, and when his body was extracted life was found to be extinct. Mackie ...

... EXPLOSION. Details have just transpired of a serious explosion of acetylene gas which occurred on Thursday night at the brickworks of Messrs. C. J. Sanders and Co., near Chesterfield, and by which Mr. W. F. Rich- mond, ?? of the firm of Messrs. Richmond ...

... on Tuesday evening, two men were engaged upon a chimney shaft at Messrs. Marriott's worsted mills, when a portion of the brickwork gave way. One of the men, named William Payne, of Hud- dersfield, fell a distance of 57 yards, and was killed on the spot ...

... shaft haa been walled with brick. On Thursday there was a slight fall of debris from the side. Towards evening 40ft. of the brickwork, which extended all down the pit, vertically, to within 30ft. of where 20 men were at work, fell. Fourteen of the men scrambled ...

... as well as the brickwork of the crown of the tunnel between Nos. 3 and 4 shafts, gave indication that something was wrong. This was the more apparent when through tbe apertures created by the cracking and falling down of the brickwork, water and quicksand ...

... Wednes- | bury respecting the deaths of four persons who had lost j their lives by a boiler explosion at Messrs. Barrows' j brickworks. It was shown that a comparatively new tubular boiler, valued at £50, exploded an i killed three men aad one woman, the ...

... Kangeley's Colliery, Unstone, near Shffield. Four men were bricking up a cupola, shaft about 10 yards from tha bottom, when the brickwork abore them fell in with a crash, knocking the four men to the bottom of the shaft. A man named Eishaw waa dreadfully injured ...

... William Howe, labourer (33), was sentenced to death for the murder of Joseph Kirby Pickup. The prisoner had beeu employed at a brickworks at Burnley, under the foremanßhip of Pickup, but was discharged for negligence. This he ascribed to the deceased and used ...

... AFFAIRS OF MR. DAN RYLANDS. An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr. Dan Rylands, of Shepcote, near Barnsley, colliery and brickwork proprietor, was held at the Law Society's Offices, Sheffield, on Tuesday. The Official Receiver ...