Thomas Copeland
| Age: | 26 |
| Died: | 19th Jun 1823 |
| Accident: | 19th Jun 1823 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1797 |
| Colliery: | Walker |
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| Occupation: | |
| Notes: | killed in the 1823 disaster |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A most melancholy accident happened at Walker colliery, near Newcastle. An air-course having to be opened, some workmen were set to open an old shaft, which had been filled up for twenty five years. The length of time it had been filled up, induced a belief that the earth, &c., filling it, had become united to the sides, and in consequence, the under viewer and five men unfortunately proceeded to remove the earth from the bottom of the shaft, at the same time that others were working at the top of it. They had not worked long, when the whole mass slid down, and buried them under it. Men were immediately set to work to dig them out, when they were found in a shocking mangled state all quite dead.
- Northumberland & Cumberland Mining Disasters by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2009, ISBN 1-845630-81-5
- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
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