... when the scaffolding on which they were standing suddenly gave way. and they fell a considerable distance to the ground. A stonemason named Murrell was killed on the spot, and the four others were so badly injured as to necessitate their removal to the ...

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

... DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. Early on Monday morning lest, considerable excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Backus% 'lnbarly and Northwood by the report of an explosion apparently proceeding from the ...

... persisted in his statement :that, though he believed he was the cause of the woman's death, yet he had no intention of killing her. On the scaffold Fordred is said to have shown remarkable firmness. Marwood was the executioner. ...

... stonemason, was killed. and three companions were injured, by falling from• a scaffold in Prince Consort-nad, Kensington. While the men were placing stone weighing half a ton into position it slipped. and its weight broke down the scaffolding. Trying to catch ...

... 30. encinew right. who was killed at Slack Hoy Colliery on Saturday. The evidence showed that deceased went down the pit in a kibble to seek Blackott, when he dropp..: taw the sump at the bottom of the abet. aced was killed. itlacket mid steam wit. blowing ...

... iff Hamond, and Mr. Robinson,' surgeon, w,alked into a yard behind the Castle keep where the scaffold was erected. The old man walked firmly to the scaffold, and simply ' nodded to a few spectators. The rope was adjusted, ' . and he disappeared from view ...

... wagons of coal, when the rope suddenly ran the pulley, and cage was thrown to the bottom of the pit. It crashed into a timber scaffold, wrecking it, and fell into seventy feet of water. If any of the men mold have escaped death before they must have been drowned ...

... horse at Crawley. Abraham a.orge, fifty, of Brighton-ro a d, West Ham, fell from scaffolding at the reading-room of a new Carnegie Library at Waltlismatow, and was killed. Mr A. Sutherland, a well-known Bi t . minghain manufacturer. and head of the Grm ...

... number of spectators who bad leant over the rails to ascertain the extent of the accident. Two people among the crowd were killed, and fourteen injured. four of these being in so serious • condition that but little hope is entertained of their recovery ...

... Ashford, executed at Exeter for the murder of her husband, similarly managed to get her feet on the scaffold after the bolt was pulled, and was not killed until Caleraft seized her from beneath, and there held her. In 1870, a man named Patrick Carr was ...

... Proprie tors have decided to advance their prices on September let to those ruling in February last. SCAFFOLDING__ACCIDENT AT LICHFIELD. A BREWOOD MAN KILLED. A new Pumping 6tation is in th.? course of erection at Pipe dill, Lichfield. Amongst those employed ...