Unusual causes of death - #43 (Decaptitated by a relative)

Be decapitated by your daughter-in-law

 

 

 

Evening Express – Friday April 30^th 1897 – page 3

Unusual causes of death - #42 (Entombment and cannibalism)

 

Entombment and cannibalism in West Wheeling, Virginia

 

 

Merthyr Times - 27 February 1896 - page 8

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Unusual causes of death - #41 (Get your face cut off)

 

Get your face cut off

 

 

Cardiff Times - 11th August 1906 - page 8

 

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #40 (Get mangled by coal wagons)

 

Get mangled by coal wagons

 

 

THE CARDIFF TIMES AND SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30^TH  1907

 

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #39 (Getting thrown out of the window, by your Mum)

 

Get thrown out of the window - by your Mother.

 

 

 

CARDIFF TIMES AND SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12 1903 – Page 9

 

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Unusual causes of death - #38 (Put your head under a lorry)

Putting your head under a lorry

 

 

 

CARDIFF TIMES AND SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS

SATURDAY AUGUST 6 1910 – Page 7

 

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #37 (Blow yourself up)

Blow yourself up

 

 

 

Cardiff Times - 1st February 1908, page 9

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #36 (Buried in red-hot ash)

Get covered by red-hot ash

 

Aberystwyth Observer – 6^th March 1902, page 2

Unusual causes of death - #35 (Eaten by her cat)

 

 

 

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5406, 11 August 1896, Page 2

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #34 (Burn to death or be shot)

Burn to death or be shot - your choice.

 

 

 

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1015, 19 May 1910, Page 5

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #33 (Suffocated and then roasted)

Suffocated and then roasted

 

 

Cambrian - 18th February 1910, page 8

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #32 (Think roasted and eaten by maggots)

Eaten by maggots

 

Weekly Mail - 6th June 1903, page 10

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #31 (Think - gassed, 400 years ago)

Miners gassed - 400 years ago

 

 

Evening Express - 28th June 1894

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #30 (A burglar suffocated)

Suffocated during a burglary

 

Evening Express - 6th February 1896, page 3

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #29 (Mangled in a machine)

Mangled by a bakery mixer

 

Cardiff Times - 30 December 1905, page 7

Unusual causes of death - #28 (Buried alive by the Germans)

Buried alive by the Germans?

 

Aberystwyth Observer - 31 March 1892, page 2

 

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #27 (“Eaten" by a tree)

Entombed inside a tree

 

Weekly Mail - 15th May 1880, page 2

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #26 (Starved then devoured)

Died a lonely death - then was eaten

 

Weekly Mail - 26 October 1910, page 2

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #25 (A burglar who "hanged" himself accidently)

He hanged himself accidently

 

Cardiff Times - 18 January 1902, page 7

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #24 (Sword swallowing going wrong)

The (predictable) end for a sword swallower

 

Weekly Mail - 31st Jan 1885, page 8

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #23 (He fell into boiling brewers liquor)

He fell into boiling brewers liquor

 

 

Monmouthshire Merlin - 8 August 1878, page 3

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #22 (Blown up by a steam boiler)

Blown up by a steam boiler

 

 

Cambrian News - 24 November 1871, page 7

 

 

Unusual causes of death - #21 (He fell 900 feet down a mine shaft)

Fell 900 feet down a mine shaft

 

Cardiff Times - 6 August 1892, page 5