Friday, 13 January 2012

1882: West Sussex Gazette Thursday 12th January 1882


The Museum
The experiment of opening the museum, in South Street on Thursday evenings, not having proved successful, it has been decided to abandon it.

A Shocking accident to a Felpham man
Information received at Eastbourne, on Monday night, that a person had been fearfully crushed by a train on the Eastbourne and Polegate Line ... the sufferer was still alive, proving to be one of the porters, named William Medhurst, who is stationed at Polegate Junction. As far as can be learned, he was in the act of leaving Polegate for his home, going along the line, when the Eastbourne train came upon him unawares, and ran over his body. Medhurst (who is native of Felpham) ... 21 years old ... When found he presented a shocking sight...
...amputated lower high of his body, but brain undamaged.

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