Best regards Heather Carbis >From The News of The World, Sunday 19 September 1886 COUNTRY NEWS NORTHUMBERLAND A SINGULAR FATALITY occurred on Tuesday morning at the steel works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Co., Elswick, Newcastle. Two men named George ATKINSON and James M'KEOWN, bricklayers, had on Saturday left their tools in a gas flue. On entering the flue on Tuesday to get the tools they were overcome by the gas. A fellow-workman named MILLARD, rescued M'KEOWN, but was unable to return and rescue ATKINSON owing to the gas affecting him. Another work-man, however, after first putting a rope around his waist, entered the flue and brought out ATKINSON, though not until it was too late, for he died about ten minutes after being brought into the open-air. M'KEOWN is in a dangerous condition, and the two rescuers were also considerably overcome by the gas. Online Parish Clerk for Morvah Cornwall http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morvah Visit my Family Tree at GOODWIN and GORDON http://heatherac.tribalpages.com