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Date:	6th April 1852
Colliery:	Willington
Company:	Strakers and Love
Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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He was drawing timber on 6 April when a mass of stone fell on him, covering his body; only his face and hands were showing. ‘Richard Bailey another deputy told Waddle to come home, but he refused as there were only two or three more props to draw out and he might as well do it before he went home.’ His funeral took place on the following Sunday, when 300 people attended 150 Sabbath scholars with their teachers being there as a mark of respect to a man who was a Sunday School teacher at Brancepeth Colliery.

	Waddle, Samuel, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone
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