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| Date: | 31st October 1932 |
| Colliery: | Kimblesworth |
| Cause: | Fall of Stone |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A Durham miner, William Beedon, aged 31. Sang "Goodnight Vienna" while he was being taken on a stretcher to the shaft bottom in Kimblesworth Colliery, near Durham, on Monday night. He had just been extricated from beneath a large stone, which it took seven men to remove. Beedon was taken to Durham Country Hospital, where he died shortly after admission.
Source: The Times, November 2nd, 1932
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 | Beedon, William Edward, aged 31, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Sacriston Cemetery |
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| 02 Nov 1932 | News in Brief (The Times) |
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