Penistone, Stocksbridge, Hoyland & Chapeltown Express, etc. — 1899-12-15 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

INQUESTS AT DEEPCAR.  -- ACCIDENT AT CAMMELLS*. CRUSHED BY A CASTING BOX. A fatal accident, of a shocking character occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday, at the works of Menem Cammell and Co., Carlisle street. Grime. thorpe. Three or four men were employed in the foundry removing heavy steel casting boxes, which had been filled during the afternoon, to another part of the shop by means of a travelling crane, and one box had just been lifted when another, that was standing near it, overturned. A labourer named John Quinn, whose home is in Brightside lane, was caught by the falling box and terribly crushed. The weight of the box and casting that fell upon him would be not less than a ton, and catching him on the shoulders it appears to have doubled hint up. When the box was raised life was almost extinct, and indeed, the deceased only appeared to gasp once before expiring. Another man, named Samuel Deakin. was knocked down, but he escaped with slight injuries. Nothing more than a suggestion was made at the works to account for the accident. The casting box stood about 61t. bv lit. by Mt., and it was reared on the narrowest side. The boor of the shop is said to have been perfectly level, and the surmise put forward is that some mediation may have upset the equilitnium of the box. The deceased was a married man, and leaves a widow and four children.  Deepcar hair again been the scene of two most unfortunate occurrences, both, most likely, comes of suicide. Last Friday evening, a Sheffield man committed suicide on the railrood, and on Sunday morning an old resident was found dead. .  On Saturday evening, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Coroner, held an inquest at the Great Central Station, Deepear, on the body of a man who WOW cut in two on the line on Friday night—John Hudson. porter at Deepcar Station, and Robert Baxter. a booking clerk at the station, spoke to seeing deceased on the platform between seven and half-past seven o'clock on Friday evening. A slow train was standing in the station when the Manchester express pawed through. After both traits. had left the station deceased was found on the main rails of the down line, cut in two.— George Turner, engine driver. of 126, Victoria street, Openshaw. Manchester, said be drove the Manchester express which named through Deemer at 7-30 on Friday night. From what was said to him when he reached Manchester he examined his engine, and found blood marks on the right life-guard.—The jury returned the following verdict: "Killed by an express train on the Great Central Railway, probably suicide." At the time of the inquest the body bad not been identified, but it has since been recognised by Thomas Moldy, of 28, Rough Bank. Park. Sheffield, as Out of his brother, William Bold'', of 9, Cricket Inn road, Park. Deceased was a single man, and lived with his mother and sisters, at the address named, and was emnloyed at the Effingham street Gas Works, Sheffield, as a labourer. He went to work in good health and spirits, on Friday morning, and his friends are at a lora to know how be came to he at Deepest at night. He had never spoken of such a thing as suicide.