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James Beaston
| Age: | 24 |
| Died: | 23rd Oct 1859 |
| Accident: | 23rd Oct 1859 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1835 |
| Colliery: | North Seaton |
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| Occupation: | Sinker |
| Notes: | killed in sinking pit |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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One of the sinkers killed at North Seaton pit. The shaft is fifteen feet and a half in diameter, and now eighty fathoms down, and bratticed nearly to the bottom plank upon plank three inches thick.
A cradle nearly fitting the front part of the pit was hung upon four chains, each fifteen feet long. Joined to the rope attached to the main crab.
The cradle had been raised from the bottom with the deceased and two other upon it, but a projection in that part of the shaft made it necessary to cant it up on one side ; all were made aware of what was going to be done ; but in the act of doing it the deceased slipped off the low slide, and in the act pulled over with him the iron sinking tub ; the fall was twenty fathoms, so that death was instantaneous.
It is a curious circumstance, that in this and many similar cases, the deceased are shown to be incautious rash persons, so accustomed to danger that they cannot be made to entertain dear or caution.
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 29 Oct 1859 | Local & General News (Morpeth Herald) |
| 05 Nov 1859 | Colliery Accident (Morpeth Herald) |
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- 1859 Mines Inspectors Report
- Contributions by members of the Public
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