... to any of the persons employed in erection but on that day, we regret to say, one of the workmen was killed on the spot by a por- tion of the scaffolding falling upon him. Within a few miles distance there is another viaduct in course of building across ...

... from 10,000 to 12,000 individuals, nearly half of whom were women. The river Tarell flowed between the spectators and the scaffold, the avenue being guarded by the police. On Tuesday, at the request of the convict, Mr. I/Izcnby, governor of the gaol, took ...

... protector of his wife at the. cost of his life, was her denouncer—was endea- vouring to save himself by consigning her to the scaffold! God forbid that he should imitate that example, as it seemed to be expected he would.. He would far rather never enter that ...

... entered into, confident hopes are entertained that its promoters will have no difficulty in raising tho amount. AN EXECUTIONER KILLED BY HIS SON. The Gazette des Tribunaux has the following communication from Bois le Due in liolland It is well known that among ...

... orders he received from his employers, to make a new scaffold; and they cannot conclude this most painful in- quiry without expressing an earnest hope that in all such erections, whether of scaffolds or platforms, where the lives of persons are likely ...

... millwrights. For the purpose of performing some work necessary to be done to a window a scaffold was put out, and it overhung the premises of Messrs. Glass. The scaffold consisted of a single plank, and it was so placed as to be eighteen inches from the wall ...

... damage was done. On Tuesday a rotten scaffold pole, on which three painters depended for safety whilst painting a London house, broke, and the poor fellows were precipitated a distance of forty-five feet. One man was killed, and the others were dreadfully ...

... estimate the gravity of the result of a blast furnace scaffolding giving way and eight persons being precipitated from a great height to the earth. We cannot affirm at present that any one man was killed on the spot, but having seen two apparently lifeless ...

... there is yet £ 5,000 in hand. The Great Northern Railway Company, whose ser- vant he was, are the only creditors. On Monday a scaffold connected with the tower of a new independent chapel erecting in Chorlton- upon-Medlock, gave way with eight men upon it ...

... erected a scaffold up the whole of the front of the house. Shortly after eleven o'clock an old man, named Wil- liam Moore, his son, and grandson, the latter aged about twelve, together with an Irish labourer, were at work on the top stage of the scaffold in ...

... attend- ing the discovery of a human body at Croydon. The evidence went clearly to establish the fact that the deceased was killed by lightning whilst taking shelter under a high tree, immediately under which he was discovered. This tree, upon examination ...

... building. The foremen of the plum- bers and glaziers, while performing his duties, fell from a lofty scaffold to the ground (a distance of 50 feet), and was killed instantaneously. A fearful explosionjoccurred on Saturday afternoon at Mr. Kirby's fireworks ...