Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	18th February 1936
Colliery:	Kimblesworth
Cause:	Crushed
Lives Lost:	1

Entombed Miners Rescued

After being entombed in the Kimblesworth Colliery, Co. Durham, since 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, two local miners. Matthew Howard and William Collins, were rescued shortly before 2 a.m. yesterday. They had been cut off by a fall of roof in which a workmate, Robert Atkinson, 19, a coal cutter, of Sacriston, was killed. Rescue parties worked through to the imprisoned men. Four times when they had almost got through further falls occurred.

Source: The Times, February 20th, 1936

	Atkinson, Robert, aged 18, Coal Cutter, crushed by tub, Buried: Sacriston Cemetery
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20 Feb 1936

Entombed Miners Rescued (The Times)

 

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