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Newspaper 'The Montgomeryshire Express and Radnor Times', 22 November 1898, describing an accident at Cambrian Mills, Newtown, owned by the Severn Tweed Company Limited. Two men lost their lives and two others were seriously injured when a water tank which feeds the boilers and gas engines bad collapsed, and buried beneath it four men named Abraham Humphreys (Blacksmith, Old Church Street), John Inkerman Jones (Labourer, Frankwell Street), Charles Francis (Labourer, Bryn Street) and John Brown (Labourer, Green Lane, Abermule), all in the employ of Messrs. Turner Brothers, iron founders, Newtown. Humphreys and Brown were instantaneously killed, Francis was injured in a shocking manner, while Jones escaped.