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DANGEROUS FIRE EXTINGUISHER

... DANGEROUS FIRE EXTINGUISHER Circumstances attending the death of Henry James Pearce, a fireman in Portsmouth Dockyard, who died u the result of injuries following the bursting of a fire extinguisher, were inquired into by the deputy coroner. Pearce was ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GALLANT FIREMEN,

... who was badly burned. Bennett and another fireman named Griffiths then found Whatton's little daughter crouching against a bedstead. She was unconscious, and they carried her from the burning building, but she died two hours afterwards. ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

wiGToN UNHAPPY GIRL'S SUICIDE

... was retried to a field 400 yards away. Annie Lime, aged eight, oft liarekamartneet, Preston, has died from gas.poisoiliag; her brother, aged two, died from the same oftvo , on the preiious day. The children were found in a bedroom full of OAS. ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1911
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MINER BURIED ALIVE

... MINER BURIED ALIVE After being twice buried by falls of roof, fireman named John Price, at Elders' Navigation Colliery, near Maesteg, Glamorgan, died after a reacne party had come within an ace of success. Three hours after the work of excavation had ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1909
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHILD'S FATAL TOY

... CHILD'S FATAL TOY. George Thomas Culpin, the ten year old son of a London Fire Brigade fireman, stationed at Ladhroke-grove, was playing with a tin toy of the shape of two oyster shells fastened together. In order to produce a sound he had to blow between ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1913
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MANY KILLED AND INJURED

... train were about one hundred people, and sixteen of these were killed outright (including the driver, fireman, and one of the guar • dsi Three have since died in the infirmary, and thirty-four were injured. ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXPLOSION IN ♦ DISTILLERY

... people happily bad the prese, re of mind to roll him along the ground until tho Homes were stamped out. James I.;onner, the fireman, a 1.., sustained •ver• burns, and both men bad to be moved to the infirmary.—Jasper Robson, an t fhoer of Enke, who was also ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS. Lighting-Up-Time. Friday, 10-35 ; Saturday, 10-33 ; Sunday, 10.32; Monday, 1030; Tue•day, 10 29 ; ..

... Sunday, 10.32; Monday, 1030; Tue•day, 10 29 ; Wednesday, 10-27; Thursday, 10-26; Friday, 10-25. Arthur Nixon, locomotive fireman, residing in Jackson Street, Greystone Road, Carlisle, was drowned near Port Carlisle on Thursday while batking It will be ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1923
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DISASTER AT SEA

... George Vonofahelos, Cardiff ; John Morris, Cardiff; T. Davidson, donkeyman, Cardiff; J. Tallis, fireman, Cardiff; S. !Meaner, fireman, Liverpool; H. Jones, fireman, Bristol. In an interview Aitken declared that the Heliopolis stood off at a considerable distance ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

rHE WIGTON ADVERTISER. A TERRIBLE DEATH,

... He is pinioned by the wreck of the engine, and is just able to keep his head above water by standing on the corpse of the fireman. He was kept alive by the constant administration of stimulants, while surgeons made efforts to amputate the unfortunate man's ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1890
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUPER-MANS RECOVERY

... SUPER-MANS RECOVERY. When a ship's fireman was charged at Tower Bridge Police-court with wounding Pan Ne Chehi, a native of Cores, Dr. Charrtand, senior surgeon at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, said the injured man had a chest wound three inches deep ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1915
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TEN KILLED IN A COLLIERY

... Glamorganshire, owned by Messrs. Baldwin, Limited. Seven men were killed on the spot and twelve injured. Two of the latter died on Saturday night, and a third on Sunday morning. After the explosion • fall took place, which rendered the task of extricating ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 3 | Tags: none