DESTRUCTION OF A VALUABLE PADDOCK OF WHEAT AND A HAYSTACK.
The number of fires that have been caused by workmen persisting in smoking while following their regular avocations, lias formed the text for many a sensible homily. While harvesting especially the practice is a dangerous one, and should he stringently prohibited by employers. Wo have to record an accident which occurred on Wednesday from this cause, and resulted in the destruction of property to the value of £lso—rather too large a sum to pay for the pleasure of enjoying the fragrant weed. The fire took place in the large 40-acrc paddock abutting on the old' Great North Road, and owned by Mr Motion. The field was sown with wheat, which was valued at £SO, and there was a large, stack of hay in one part of the paddock worth £IOO. Four men were engaged cutting down the wheat, and one of them, after lighting his pipe, carelessly threw the match away. The dry crop at once caught lire, and as a quantity of grass, dried to tinder, was growing between the wheat, the flames ran rapidly through the field, defying all efforts to extinguish it, and soon extended to the haystack, which was also speedily consumed. — D. S. Cross.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 82, 13 January 1872, Page 2
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