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HEROIC FIREMEN

... down the ladder. But be was too late to save his life. Then it was found that there was another child on the third floor. Fireman Greenwood went up, forced an entrance, and brought out, unconscious, an eighteen-months-old child. MARRIAGE A DISQUALIFICATION ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1909
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A LEVEL-CROSSING ACCIDENT

... thrashing machine was broken to pieces, and a man named Ellis Sforritt, who was employed as fireman of the traction-engine, received injuries from which he died a few hours afterwards. It is stated to have been a very foggy morning. Colonial Addison does ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1895
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEAD MAN'S RETURN

... his coolie opponent, the other English fireman receiv iug a blow on the head with a shovel. The magistrate ordered the coolies to be arrested. The two wounded men were conveyed to tha hospital, where Brown died. ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CURIOUS COLLISION

... Barrow-on-Soar when it was run int• from behind by a train hound for Derby. The driver of the engine, a man named Brooks, and the fireman, named Wallis. both of Nottingham, were hurled amongst the coal in the tender. The engine ran unattended until Brooke recovered ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WHO JACK THE RIPPER WAS

... medical profession. Mr. Kebbell goes on to say:— Just prior to the Whitechapelmurders he bad been getting his living as a fireman on a cattle boat, and basing beea.auspected . and watched by the police, was arrested in the very act of mutilating a woman: ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A CHOLERA SHIP AT LIVERPOOL

... Liverpool, and on the following day at seven p.m. John Cummings, fireman, was taken ill with violent purging and cramp in the stomach. Re was treated as the master best knew how, but died on the 11th, pt two o'clock in the afternoon. On the 14th inst. ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1884
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WIG lON ADVERTISER--SATURDAY, PECEMBER 81, 1910. CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH

... ng lytek into the omen. sir with child. under each arm. Beth. wt re alive, but terribly burnt, :sod the died ahno.t iriniedintely, *lto the girl died the following meaning. Sheerness ' the preen iee-3 et Metiers. Murray and Wenm an. ironmongers, withr stock ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LODGING-HOUSE IN FLAMES

... building it was evident that the dead had been suffocated, their burns, as a rule, being very slight. On the third floor a fireman found three holies huddled in a corner, one being that of Charles Bird, the caretaker. Apparently Bird had been trying to ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1909
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHAVED A CUSTOI 102 YEARS OLD. MR. and Mrs. John Holdsworth, 3, Station Road, Wigton, have colebrated their ..

... Thomas Moffat, of Wigton, who died many years ago. On one occasion there met in the shop three veterans whose united ages totalled 271 years (97, 87, 87). One of them, a John Wilkinson, who commented on the wonderful meeting, died a short time afterwards. ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1935
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FATAL FIRE

... nt Brown and Fireman Cronin. A panic followed amongst the crowd, but Inspector Hopkins and the police quickly extricated the firemen. Superintendent Brown was found to be terribly injured, his face, ribs, and arms being crushed. Fireman Cronin had one ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1891
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOY THIEF'S ADVENTURES•

... took them to a local jeweller, who told him they were worth about 16. Immediately afterwards Summers gave them to a ship's fireman, who pawned them for £5, and gave the lad A 4. With this Summers bought a new suit of clothes, telling his parents that it ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 6 | Tags: none