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John Morgan
| Age: | 65 |
| Died: | 22nd Sep 1854 |
| Accident: | 22nd Sep 1854 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1789 |
| Colliery: | Whitworth Park |
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| Occupation: | Painter |
| Notes: | run over by a train |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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John Morgan, aged about 65, worked by contract at Whitworth Colliery as a painter. On the night of Friday, 22 September, he was killed while walking home on the Byers Green Branch of the Clarence Railway. At the inquest held in the Puddler’s Arms, Low Spennymoor, George Richardson, a stocktaker at Tudhoe Iron Works, said that he had been going home at about 10.30 p.m. when he discovered Morgan lying dead; the top of his head was on one side of the rails and his body on the other. Earlier in the evening, at about 9.30 p.m., a train of 65 waggons had passed along the line from Todhills, and it was supposed that Morgan ‘had laid down and the waggons passed over him.’ However, it seems more likely that he had not been aware of the approaching train, and had been run over; although, both the driver and fireman testified that they had neither seen or heard anything that night.
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- Contributions by members of the Public
- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
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