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Date:	17th January 1885
Colliery:	Etherley, George Pit
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Cause:	Fall of roof
Lives Lost:	1
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At 5 p.m. on Saturday 17th January, George Dixon, 18, was killed and Bryan Rane seriously injured in the George Pit, Etherley Colliery. The men, both blacksmiths, had gone into the pit for the purpose of "socketing" a rope, and were returning to bank by a drift. A short distance off the pit mouth, at a part where the road passed over the top, the roof collapsed and they were buried under the fall. Henry Dinsdale, who had been following a few feet behind, got assistance and the men were taken out. Dixon had been killed instantly; Rane sustained internal injuries.

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Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).

	Dixon, George Henry, aged 18, Blacksmith, killed by fall of an arching in travelling drift, Buried: St. Cuthbert Parish Churchyard, Etherley
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