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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; 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.
Collection Area
Wool
Item Number
DF 2017.6/5
Creation/Production
The Montgomeryshire Express and Radnor Times
Date: 22/11/1898
Acquisition
Purchase
Measurements
Height
(cm): 21.5
Width
(cm): 16.5
Material
paper
card
ink
Location
In store
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