FOG IN ENGLAND
MANY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THREE MEN BURNED TO DEATH* Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, December 17. (Received December 18, at 11.30 a.m.) A dense, blackish fog is spreading over London and the Midlands. In addition to causing many traffic accidents and delays, it was responsible for John Cartledge, engine driver, Frederick Walker, shunter, and Henry Wilkinson, tipper, being instantaneously, burned to death owing to the overturning of a wheeled ladle containing molten metal at the Appleby works.. An empty train, having tipped out the slag, collided, while descending the bank, with an invisible upcoming train hauling three ladlesj the first of which tipped into the engine cab in which the victims were riding.
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Evening Star, Issue 20670, 18 December 1930, Page 12
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115FOG IN ENGLAND Evening Star, Issue 20670, 18 December 1930, Page 12
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