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- SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT DRIGG
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West Cumberland Times, Wednesday, August 20, 1898
Yesterday (Friday) forenoon, Thomas RAVEN, labourer, aged 38 years, belonging to Drigg, was admitted to Whitehaven Infirmary suffering from serious injuries to his back. It appears that on Wednesday, RAVEN, who is a married man with three children, was formerly employed on the railway, but lately he had been labouring. On Wednesday he was carting, and whilst sitting on the front board of the cart the horse shied and RAVEN was thrown off the cart on to the road. His back, probably the spine, was injured, as subsequently he completely lost all power of his limbs, and it was decided to take him to the Whitehaven Infirmary by train yesterday morning. On arrival at Whitehaven he was stretchered to the infirmary, reaching the establishment shortly before eleven o'clock.
West Cumberland Times, Wednesday, August 24, 1898
THE ACCIDENT TO A DRIGG MAN.
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FATAL TERMINATION.
Thomas RAVEN, labourer, belonging to Drigg, died at the Whitehaven and West Cumberland Infirmary on Monday afternoon. He was admitted to the institution on Friday, as stated in our Saturday's issue, and his injuries were such as to give no hope for his recovery.
He had fallen off a cart on the previous Wednesday, is the EskdaleDistrict, and as a result became paralysed and helpless.
The inquest was held yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, before Mr. E. ATTER (deputy coroner for west Cumberland), and a jury of whom Mr. J. WAUGH was foreman.
Mary RAVEN, deceased's wife, identified the body. Her late husband was 36 years of age, and had been a labourer on the railway until about eight weeks ago. He then went to Yorkshire, but returned to Drigg, and obtained employment under Mr. W. TYSON, of Greendale, Wasdale. On the 17th inst. he met with an accident at Boot in Eskdale, and she last saw him alive on Friday morning, when they brought him to the infirmary from Drigg by the 9-45 train. He was in the habit of leaving the home on Monday morning and not coming back till the weekend, and she was away at Seascale when they brought him home. She received a telegram to come home about 5-45, and when she saw her husband he was conscious. She knew he was going with a cart and some calves from Wasdale to Eskdale, and deceased told her the horse shied, and he was over balanced and fell to the road. He said he fell on his shoulders.
Dr. CASS, of Ravenglass, had attended deceased but as he got no better he was taken to the infirmary. He never gave any other account of the occurrence, but he told her the horse was an old one and was walking. He also said when he fell he could not shout, as the fall knocked the speech from him. Mr. Harrison GAINFORD found him.
At this stage a telegram was handed to the coroner from Mr. GAINSFORD, who had been requested to attend as a witness, saying that as the train had broken down at Eskmeals he should be late in arriving.
A Juror (to Mrs. RAVEN): Did deceased say the wheels had gone over him?
Witness replied that deceased did not tell her so, but she had seen in the papers that such was the case.
Dr. R. S. DICKSON, house surgeon at the infirmary, said deceased was paralysed from the shoulder, one arm, both legs, and the whole of his body being affected. He was conscious, and stated that he had fallen off a cart, through the horse shieing. It was a hopeless case from the first. Deceased died on Monday at dinnertime.
The jury considered that sufficient evidence had been given, and returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."
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