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James Welsh
| Age: | 22 |
| Died: | 2nd Aug 1855 |
| Accident: | 2nd Aug 1855 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1833 |
| Colliery: | Trimdon |
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| Notes: | drowned in the shaft |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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James Welsh, 22, and another man, were repairing the shaft at Trimdon Colliery on 2 August. A corf was sent down to them which they did not want, so Welsh rapped the usual signal for it to be drawn to bank again. It was drawn up the shaft a considerable distance before it struck against a bunting which tore it out of its place. Welsh heard the noise and sprang from a cradle upon which he was standing to save himself from being hit. ‘He, however, seemed to have lost all presence of mind, and, instead of going to a place of safety, he jumped down the shaft, fell into forty fathoms of water, and was drowned.’ It took six hours to recover his body.
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- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
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