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Age:	20
Died:	28th Nov 1859
Accident:	25th Nov 1859
Year Born:	abt. 1839
Colliery:	Joint Stock New Sinking, Coxhoe
Company:
Occupation:	Sinker
Notes:	explosion of gunpowder
Buried:	[not known]
Category:

On Friday, 25 Nov., sinker Joseph Kyle, 20, was critically injured at the Joint Stock New Sinking, near Coxhoe. He and the other sinkers ‘came upon a seam of coal, and as is usual on such occasions, they determined to celebrate the event by some joyful demonstrations. It is very common practice to fire salutes at these times, and two of the sinkers, named Joseph Kyle, aged 20, and Michael Dical, obtained a short piece of one and a half-inch pipe, and after filling it up with gunpowder, plugged both the ends tightly up. After boring a hole through the pipe, a priming was put in, and Kyle applied a lighted candle. The explosion burst the pipe in pieces, and Kyle’s right thumb, and one of the fingers of his left hand, were blown off. He was also wounded in five other places, and died on Monday from the effects of the injuries he had sustained.’

• 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).

Email	Researcher	Date	Interest
	gina tindall	18 Nov 2016	i am interest in joseph willian kyle he was mine great grandfather in in druham and was a coal miner so i was told in 1920,s he had a daughter called annie lorraine kyle and 2 sons john willian kyle and george kyle he passaway in round about 1956 in the connifshead priory nursing home in druham i also know that he own his old hose which a farm plz can you help me out as i have been looking for all mine family over in druham

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