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1894 : H Pluck Killed by a Collapsing Building

 

Source:  Printed
Title: The Builder, lxvi 433
Date:  2 June 1894
Place:  Norton Folgate, London


FATAL ACCIDENT IN NORTON FOLGATE

On Saturday last1 Mr. A. Hodgkinson held an inquest on the body of H. Pluck, who had been killed by the fall of a floor in Elder-street, Norton Folgate, on the 21st ult. Mr. Henry Lovegrove, District Surveyor of South Islington, Shoreditch, and Norton Folgate, produced a plan of the premises, and stated that some alterations had been made in the floor over a stable (he was informed about six years since), throwing the weight of a girder on two bearers 10 in. deep by 5 in. wide. One of the bearers had two saw-cuts in it, and both were in the first stage of decay. He considered that a sound piece of timber would not have broken with two or three times the weight of the girder placed upon it, but he thought the construction bad. Mr. W. Eve, F.S.I., architect to the owners, attended. Three men and thirteen horses were buried; one man was killed and two shaken; the whole of the horses were uninjured.

Verdict — Accidental death.

1  26 May 1894

This is almost certainly Jabez Pluck (1847-1894) who is PL0478 in Tree 22. Jabez was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on 28 May 1894 - a week after the reported death on 21st May.  Jabez was a carman and it is likely that this was where his horses were stabled and he was one of the three men reported to have been buried by the debris.

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