Jonathan Simpson
| Age: | |
| Died: | Oct 1832 |
| Accident: | Oct 1832 |
| Born: | |
| Colliery: | Driggith Mine (Lead Ore) |
| Company: | |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Notes: | torrent of water |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | |
A dreadful accident occurred at Harrington, Durham. About half past five o'clock in the morning, as Thomas Dand, aged 44, his son 13, William Ray, 27, and William Cribbins, 19, were descending the shaft of the Hodgson pit, (a depth of 70 fathoms,) the rope broke, and the two former, father and son, were killed on the spot. William Cribbins, though taken up alive, was not expected to recover. William Ray fell across the bule of a basket. He was literally ripped up, and shortly afterwards died.
Pub.
Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 30 Oct 1832 | Fatal Occurrence (Whitehaven Herald) |
- Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
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