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SHOWER OF MOLTEN METAL TRAGEDY AT- IRON WORKS COLLISION DURING FOG. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright..) Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 17. A dense, blackish fog. spreading over London and the Midlands, in addition to causing many traffic accidents and delays, w:i* responsible for John Cart-ledge (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 Old Appleby works. On a slag bank an empty tram, having tipped out slag, collided while descending the bank with an invisible upcoming train hauling three ladles, the first of which tipped into the engine cab in which the victims were riding.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 9
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