... DERBY YOUTH KILLED. Fall From Scaffolding at Belper. Medical evidence given at the inquest at Belper, on Friday afternoon, on Ernest Smedley, the eighteen-year-old Derby youth who was killed on Thursday last, when he fell 23 feet from some smfinl):'ling ...

... FORTITUDE ON THE SCAFFOLD. John Alfred Gell was executed at Sh::: vn{;l’finn.hhnm “Mé for them of Mrs. Mary Miller, at Moston. e slept well ab night, and maintained to the last the impassive gmmonfhh;.:ud.hd .::;r his eonvn::wl. f: o'clock breakfast eared ...

... FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING. The foreman of a ganz employed at the electric light works in Millfields - road, Lower Clapton, gave an excitin;{l account of his escape in an accident in which Arthur Bolt, one of the men, was killed as the result of a terrible ...

... engaged in pointing or * Clearing off.”” The scaffold used during the construction of the building was still in use, and heavy weights had beeu used to test its strength. Eight men went on to the scaffold as soon as work commenced. They had scarcely began ...

... making the roadway from the pit bottom wider and higher. To do this the men had to work on scaffolding, James Gray, chargeman, said he was leaving the scaffolding shortly before five o’clock when | he heard a thud and a shout. Turnindg round, he saw deceased ...

... taking some scaffolding down. He inadvertently took away the suppart of a post which fell upon him, and dashed him head first to the ground, 17 or 18 feet below. He was killed iustantancously. The jury returned a verdict of “ Acgidentally killed.” ABOUT CRICKET ...

... PERILS OF THE PIT. ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO INJURED A shockh* accident occurred on Saturday at Scothill Wood Colliery, near Dewsbury, by which one man was killed and two others were injured. Whilethe men were engaged ona scaffold ata dogth of 14 yards from ...

... eight hours each night and day—descended the shaft at two o'clock by meaus of a cage or tub, to the scaffold from which the work was carried on. The scaffold was the kind ordinarily used for the purpose, being a sort of half-square wooden ;ulfie jultT:rgo ...

... extensive works of Messrs. Strutt, met his death in an awfully sudden manner. He was engaged at work on a slightly raised scaffolding, placing a * guard ™ over a piece of shafting which mach through the pine end of the turning shop w his clothing became ...

... SIXTY FEET. Some consternation was created in the Heanor district on Saturday morning by the news that another miner had been killed at the Shipley Collieries. It appears that a man named (3eorge Gratten, a pit-sinker, was working down the Waterloo Pit, Shipley ...

... a serious shaft accident in Mgy, when six men Jost their lives through the scaffolding on which ithe men were engaged ip pit sinking operations giving way. Five men were killed on the spot, sbut-the sixth, Patrick McCarchy, was pinned by the legs between ...

... strangulation. Efforts had been made to obtain a reprieve for Shaw, but without avail. Shaw admitted to the chaplain that he had killed his wife, but he said he did so unintentionally. He was very restless during the night and rose early, when he partook of ...