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| Date: | 27th August 1897 |
| Colliery: | Eston (Ironstone) |
| Cause: | Fall of ground |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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No. 360 on the list occurred at Eston Mines, belonging to Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Limited, causing the deaths of a father and son, both miners, on August 27th.
These men were working together and fired a shot which had left a piece of the ironstone up in one of the corners of the place. They commenced to bar it down and eventually succeeded in doing so, but unfortunately it exposed a sandy parting and a stone above, the shape of a horse's back, which, as soon as its support was removed, fell and killed them both.
This is a very sad accident, inasmuch as it caused the death of two men, and they father and son. I do not, however, think it could have by any means been prevented, as the sandy parting above was not visible until the stone which they were barring fell.
| Source: | 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian. |
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Douglas, John, aged 23, Miner, They had fired a shot in the side and were engaged getting the stone down when a large fall of roof took place and killed them | |
Douglas, Mark, aged 43, Miner, They had fired a shot in the side and were engaged getting the stone down when a large fall of roof took place and killed them | |
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