| Extract
from the Bolton Journal & Guardian, 10th July
1903 |
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WESTHOUGHTON.
TERRIBLE FATALITY AT THE BOILER WORKS.
ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED. |
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fearful accident occurred at Messrs. Musgrave's boilerworks,
Westhoughton, shortly after seven last night, whereby Samuel
Winward (51), a married man, residing at 10, Leigh Common, Westhoughton,
was killed, and James Holt, a married man about 40, residing
at 47, Penn-st., Bolton, was seriously injured. It appears that
the men were engaged upon a boiler, which was hanging by means
of suspenders, when unaccountably the hangers gave way, and
the boiler fell with a terific crash, smashing Winward's head
to a pulp and almost severing his right foot from his body.
Death was, of course, instantaneous. Holt was seriously injured,
and was removed to the Bolton Informary, where, upon inquiry,
it was ascertained that his condition was serious. |
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