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| Date: | 17th September 1847 |
| Colliery: | Percy Main |
| Cause: | Fell down shaft |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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Two men, named Thomas Dobinson and Walter Murray, descended the pump shaft of Percy Main Colliery, near North Shields, for the purpose of examining the pumping gear which is used or the purpose of drawing the water from the mine. The men who undertake this job are lowered down by means of a gin rope, worked with horses, and, to facilitate the intercourse with the surface a string leads up the shaft to a bell. Having completed their work, they gave the signal to pull up. The horses went to their work and the rope ascended, when suddenly something seemed to check it, the horses put forth their strength, and the rope came up without the men. It was broken, and a frightful calamity had happened, the rope having got entangled in the scaffolding. They were killed on the spot.
| Source: | Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, Published in 1867 |
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Dobinson, Thomas, fell down shaft | |
Murray, Walter, fell down shaft | |
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