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| Date: | 14th June 1883 |
| Colliery: | Framwellgate Moor |
| Company: | Framwellgate Coal Co. |
| Cause: | Crushed by tubs |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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Alfred Hessleton, 15, worked as a driver at Framwellgate Moor Colliery. On 14th June he decided to change his pony because it was too slow ; its replacement became "fractious and restive and ultimately ran him off the rails". The tubs overturned and he was crushed to death beneath them.
| Source: | Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle). |
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 | Heslington/Wilson, Alfred, aged 15, Driver, supposed to have either fallen off his set of tubs and been run over, or was thrown off by them leaving the metals |
| | Wilson/Heslington, Alfred, aged 15, Driver, supposed to have either fallen off his set of tubs and been run over, or was thrown off by them leaving the metals |
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