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Ernest Clark
| Age: | 26 |
| Died: | 15th Mar 1926 |
| Accident: | 15th Mar 1926 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1900 |
| Colliery: | Thorne |
| Company: | Pease and Partners Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Sinker |
| Notes: | the men lost their lives owing to the breaking of a capstan engine and the consequent fall of a sinking scaffold, on which the men were working, to the shaft bottom; when the capstan engine broke, the ropes supporting the scaffold were torn out of the engine and went with the scaffold to the bottom |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 16 Mar 1926 | All Through The Night, Doncaster Disaster, Helpers Busily Engaged (Sunderland Daily Echo) |
| 08 May 1926 | Thorne Colliery Accident (The Science and Art of Mining) |
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