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Date:	24th October 1898
Colliery:	Loftus (Ironstone)
Cause:	Fall of Roof or Side
Lives Lost:	1

No. 447 on the list occurred at Loftus Mines, belonging to Messrs. Pease and Partners, Ltd., on October 24th, causing the death of a miner.

The deceased was working with his son in a place where the roof was very soft and friable. The baulks were well put in, but the deceased was not satisfied as some pieces of stone continued to fall, which showed it was moving, and he went for the deputies. They came in and looked at it, and then went to get some props to put in, and told this man and his son to keep out. They, however, went into the place and the stone fell through the baulks, and covered them both up. The deceased was suffocated, but the boy was saved by some timber above him.

It is to be regretted that the deceased man and his son went into the place again before it had been made safe by the deputies. He did a very proper thing to go for the deputies, but, after doing that, because he thought the place required more timber, it seems strange that he should have gone into it again before the defects had been remedied.

Source:

1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian

	Crawford, George, aged 42, Miner, some small shale fell from the roof at the face of his working place and covered him up, and before he could be got out he was suffocated, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 27 Oct 1898 {NBI}
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