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| Date: | 23rd January 1888 |
| Colliery: | Stanley Drift |
| Cause: | Fall of Stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Miles Marsh, 19, of Grahamsley, was found dead under a fall of "rammel" in Stanley Drift Colliery on Monday 23rd January. It was thought that had help been at hand straight away he might well have been saved.
| Source: | Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle). |
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March, Miles, aged 20, Hewer, fall of stone and coal when turning a place away he met with a breaker in the roof | |
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