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Surname
CARRUTHERS
Forename
Robert
Day
30
Month
07
Year
1924
Age
22
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Knockshinnoch
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
New Cumnock Collieries Ltd
Location
New Cumnock
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
30 July 1924: New Cumnock Miner Killed – While Robert Carruthers, 22, son of Wm. Carruthers, residing at Connel Park, New Cumnock, was at work at the coal face in Knockshinnoch Mine, belonging to the New Cumnock Collieries Ltd, he was caught by a rush of coal and buried. When extricated, life was extinct. [Scotsman 31 July 1924]