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Penny Illustrated Paper
9th January 1904
Two Burnley Boys Scalded to Death
A shocking incident occurred on Clifton Recreation Ground, Burnley, last week. While some boys were playing football the ball rolled into a drain-pipe which recevies discharges of hot water and exhaust steam from an adjacent colliery. Two of the boys, named Albert Weatherhead and Willie Clarke, went into the pipe for the ball. Hot water was being discharged from the colliery at the time, and the unfortunate lads tried to creep back. Weatherhead's screams were heard, and he was rescued in a terribly scalded condition. Clarke, however, was overpowered and could not get back to the mouth of the pipe. Efforts were promptly made to recover the boy by excavation and other means. His body was eventually found jammed in the pipe fifty yards from the entrance, and it had to be dragged out by ropes. Life was extinct. The boy, Weatherhead was taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
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