Description

No. 3 on the coal mines list occurred at Eppleton Colliery, where two boys, Williams Scott, a driver, and John Batey, a landing boy, were killed. It appears that Scott, the driver, brought out a set of full tubs to the east engine landing, and instead of leaving them at the inner end of it for Batey, the landing boy, to draw up with a trace-pony, both boys had been riding on the tubs, and it was supposed they had been driving fast along the landing (which dips slightly at the inner end and then rises) so as to get up the rising part to the engine set, and that the pony had stumbled or the tubs jumped off the rails. When found, both the boys were dead and one of the pony's legs broken, the two first tubs being up-ended with the wheels together. There was no one there to say exactly how it occurred, and everything appeared to have been in proper working order.

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Sources

• 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241) Where to find this report
• 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 472, Accident Number: 3 Where to find this report
• Church/Cemetery photograph (T-03559-07-0002) © Kev Duncan
• Headstone(s) in St. Nicholas's Churchyard (Destroyed by fire 2006), Hetton-le-Hole
• Tombstone photograph (T-03550-07-0002) © Kev Duncan

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