This article was found in the Congleton & Macclesfield Mercury, and Cheshire General Advertiser,
20 August 1892, page 8
The transcription reads:
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT BRADWELL SIDING.
Early on Thursday morning, Thomas Hemmings, aged 19, who lives at Tunstall, met with a serious accident while following his employment at the Bradwell siding of the North Staffordshire Railway. Hemmings is employed as a guardsman, and while engaged in some shunting operations he was caught between the engine and one of the trucks. He was at once removed to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, where he was found to have been badly crushed and bruised. He is progressing as well as can be expected.
Although we have Hemmings in the family, Thomas is not a relative. Interestingly though, the Hemmings in our family were connected to the railway through their jobs, maybe he is a very distant cousin? I did find a Thomas Hemmings in the 1901 census of the right age, living in Tunstall, married and with 3 children, his occupation is given as railway yard foreman. So it does look as if Thomas survived the accident and continued to work on the railways.
20 August 1892, page 8
The transcription reads:
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT BRADWELL SIDING.
Early on Thursday morning, Thomas Hemmings, aged 19, who lives at Tunstall, met with a serious accident while following his employment at the Bradwell siding of the North Staffordshire Railway. Hemmings is employed as a guardsman, and while engaged in some shunting operations he was caught between the engine and one of the trucks. He was at once removed to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, where he was found to have been badly crushed and bruised. He is progressing as well as can be expected.
Although we have Hemmings in the family, Thomas is not a relative. Interestingly though, the Hemmings in our family were connected to the railway through their jobs, maybe he is a very distant cousin? I did find a Thomas Hemmings in the 1901 census of the right age, living in Tunstall, married and with 3 children, his occupation is given as railway yard foreman. So it does look as if Thomas survived the accident and continued to work on the railways.
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