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| Date: | 19th August 1898 |
| Colliery: | East Howle |
| Cause: | By explosives |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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No. 383 on the list occurred at East Howle Colliery. belonging to Messrs. The Carlton Iron Company, Ltd., on August 19th, causing the death of a stoneman.
The deceased was working at a stone "canch" by himself. He went into the pit at 4.30 p.m., and then to his place, and fired one shot ; but in lighting it he had, by some means, probably by applying the light to the match instead of the touch, caused it to explode before he got out of the way and was hit on the head with a stone projected from it.
Unfortunately, the poor fellow was in the pit for about twelve hours before it was discovered that he had been killed. He had asked the master-shifter, who was the official in charge of the pit at the time, if he might go out sooner, as he wished to go to a flower show on the following day, and the master-shifter concluded he had gone home, and did not make any enquiries at the shaft whether he had ascended or not, and it was not known that he had happened any accident until his wife came to the pit to ask why he had not come home. Immediate search was then made, and he was found not far from the shot, quite dead.
The doctor at the inquest said that the injuries were such as would cause instant death.
| 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. |
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Hawthorne, Thomas, aged 36, Stoneman, he was found lying dead close to where he had lighted a powder shot; he had been injured by stones on the head and shoulder | |
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