Fatal Accident at Conisborough.

April 1898

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 27 April 1898

Fatal Accident at Conisborough.

Yesterday, a fatal accident occurred at Messrs. Walker and Crawshaw’s Brickworks. Conisborough.

The foreman, John Piper, aged about 60, was standing near a stack of bricks, when he was crushed between a truck and the brick stack, and so badly injured that he died within the hour.