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Loscoe Historical Newspaper Reports
replied on: 3/30/2005 3:15:34 PM

lOSCOE IN
1885 / 1886

RIPLEY ADVERTISER
31ST JANUARY 1885
LOSCOE
EXCITING SCENE
On Sunday upward of 400 persons were skating and sliding on the Loscoe Dam during the afternoon, the ice, which previously showed signs of rapidly giving way, broke and seven or eight persons were immersed. One young man was skating about 20 yards from the side when the ice broke for several yards around him, amid shrieks and great excitement, the spectators, numbering about 700, standing on the banks, rushed to the scene of the catastrophe. No rope being available, planks and oars were thrown in to the unfortunate young man, and ultimately, by the tying of pocket-handkerchiefs together, he was rescued in a very exhausted state.

RIPLEY ADVERTISER
MARCH 20TH 1886
LOSCOE
Sequel to an ice accident during the skating season of 1885 about 15 months ago a youth about 14 years of age named William Blathwick, narrowly escaped drowning at Loscoe Dam, being in the water for nearly half an hour. Ever since that time he has been more or less seriously ill and recently unable to follow his employment. Six weeks ago he was sent to the Nottingham Infirmary but gradually grew worse, and on Monday night succumbed to the illness brought on by exposure to water and cold on the above occasion.

RIPLEY ADVERTISER
OCTOBER 30TH 1886
SHOCKING TRAP ACCIDENT AT LOSCOE
FIVE PERSONS INJURED
On Saturday night a serious accident occurred at Loscoe, near Heanor. Mr Herbert Clarke of Loscoe was just starting to convey a load of passengers from Loscoe to Ripley Fair, and when descending Eyre’s Hill, Loscoe, both shafts broke. The horse bolted, and the occupants were thrown into the roadway in all directions. At this moment another bus and a pair of horses were coming from the opposite direction, and both colliding, the accident was rendered still more alarming. Five of the occupants of the former vehicle were shockingly injured. Mr Herbert Clarke, owner of the horse and trap, who was driving, was picked up in an unconscious state, much crushed about the head and body, and suffering apparently from internal injury. Both the cases of Mr Joseph Thorpe and his wife appeared to be the worst. The former had both legs broken, one at the thigh and the other below the knee, and the latter had her bottom jaw smashed, and face cut and mangled terribly. Mr Joseph Hordish was badly cut and bruised, and a youth named Powell of Heanor, received some superficial injuries and a terrible shaking. The injured persons were carried into the Coach and Horses public, close to, where they were examined by Doctors Woolley and Peters, of Heanor. Three of the cases were considered very serious, and Mr and Mrs Thorpe were ordered to be sent immediately to the Derby Infirmary. The remainder were conveyed to their homes, not many yards distant, but few minutes having elapsed from the start to the time of the accident. Mr Clarke was on Monday a shade better, but still in a critical condition. Thorpe and his wife are said to be progressing as favourably as can be expected. The cause of the accident is supposed to have been overloading. Thirteen persons, it is said, being in the trap at the time.

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