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Date:	14th February 1870
Colliery:	Coxhoe
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Cause:	Fell down shaft
Lives Lost:	4
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Repairing furnace shaft. Their partners had been drawn up to the main coal drift, and one of them stepping into the drift he inadvertently caused a piece of iron to fall down the shaft; this, striking the cradle on which the four men were standing, broke two of the hanging chains, and thus caused them to be precipitated to the bottom.

	Alderson, Joseph, aged 29, Sinker, fell down shaft
	Carter, William, aged 20, Sinker, fell down shaft
	Huggins, John, aged 40, Sinker, fell down shaft
	Lindsay, Peter, aged 34, Sinker, fell down shaft, Buried: Shincliffe, St. Mary the Virgin on 17 Feb 1870 {NBI}
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15 Feb 1870	Local and District News (Shields Daily Gazette)
17 Feb 1870	Inquest On The Four Men Killed At Coxhoe (Newcastle Journal)
19 Feb 1870	Terrible Accident At Coxhoe Colliery, Four Men Killed (Morpeth Herald)

 

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