FALL OF 120 FEET.
TERRIBLE DEATH OF TWO STEEPLEJACKS. Two steeplejacks met with a terrible death at Wolverhampton on Saturday morning, July 11, falling from a chimney 120 ft. m height. Their bodies, which alighted on a large quantity of broken bricks, were almost beyond recognition, r when picked up. One of the men ! was Tom Prcndergast, son of a sub-contractor, and the second man was later identified as John .Thomas Shea, a native of Dresdon,', Longton, Staffs.. .He had been staying in Wolverhampton over a, week. Both men werfe. engaged in,the work of demolishing a large stack.. The laddering was completed,on Friday night, July 10, and on Saturday morning the two men went up'the stack. At the top an iron band enclosed coping stones,, • but the removal of this band, it'iß; supposed j caused a crumbling of the masonry, and-the-men j being-unable to retain ': their hold,- fell baokwards. Fivo men andboys working in a room just below had a narrow escape. Several tons of masonry _ fell- on to - a store-room, smashing the furniture and flooring, the debris making its way into; a room adjoining the one in which they were at; work.. After the tragedy the work of removing the ladders from the stack was accomplished with great risk.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 289, 31 August 1908, Page 11
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210FALL OF 120 FEET. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 289, 31 August 1908, Page 11
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