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| Date: | 26th May 1898 |
| Colliery: | Seaham |
| Company: | Marquis of Londonderry |
| Cause: | Underground Haulage Accident |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
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No. 243 on the list occurred at Seaham Colliery, belonging to the Marquis of Londonderry, on May 26th, causing the death of two boys, one a driver and the other trapper.
This was a case of great carelessness and disobedience to the rules in force at the colliery. The driver got a tub and asked the other boy to get into it and then pushed it to the top of a heavy gradient (2½ ins, per yard) on an inclined engine plane, where he got in himself and gave it a start ; one sprag was in one of the wheels, but notwithstanding this the tub went amain and ran off the way at a point 550 yards from where they got in. One of the boys, the trapper, was picked up dead, and the other's skull was fractured, and he died on June 6th.
Accidents of this kind should never happen, and I am glad, as far as I know, such a glaring ease of carelessness is not of frequent occurrence. I hope the result of it will deter other boys and men doing such a reckless action as these boys did, and by which they lost their lives.
| Source: | 1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 28 Where to find this report |
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 | Clyde, James, aged 13, Trapper, an empty tub was being taken into a landing by the landing boy, when Hudson took possession of it, and when he got to near the top of an incline he and Clyde got into it; Hudson pushed it away and it ran amain and got off the way at a runaway switch; both boys were found on the floor of the mine, Clyde quite dead and Hudson unconscious, suffering from a fractured skull, and he died June 6th, Buried: Princess Road Cemetery, Seaham |
| | Hudson, Francis (died: 06 Jun 1898) , aged 16, Driver, an empty tub was being taken into a landing by the landing boy, when Hudson took possession of it, and when he got to near the top of an incline he and Clyde got into it; Hudson pushed it away and it ran amain and got off the way at a runaway switch; both boys were found on the floor of the mine, Clyde quite dead and Hudson unconscious, suffering from a fractured skull, and he died June 6th |
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