Post by HeatherC on Dec 14, 2008 8:03:46 GMT -5
From - The Pall Mall Gazette (London), Wednesday, October 9, 1872
Two fatal accidents are reported from Cornwall. In one case a party were out shooting, when James CURNOW, of Zennor, while reloading the discharged chamber of a double barrelled gun, placed his arm upon the muzzle of the loaded barrel, which exploded, and injured him so severely that he died on Saturday from shock to the system. At Wheal Mary Anne Mine, near Liskeard, a miner named John Husband, lost his life by a piece of rock falling upon him while at work underground.
Two fatal accidents are reported from Cornwall. In one case a party were out shooting, when James CURNOW, of Zennor, while reloading the discharged chamber of a double barrelled gun, placed his arm upon the muzzle of the loaded barrel, which exploded, and injured him so severely that he died on Saturday from shock to the system. At Wheal Mary Anne Mine, near Liskeard, a miner named John Husband, lost his life by a piece of rock falling upon him while at work underground.