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Surname
CONWAY
Forename
Charles
Day
14
Month
05
Year
1931
Age
19
Occupation
Miner/Peewit
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumphinnans
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
14 May 1931: Fife Pit Fatality - One Man Killed and Two Injured - Charles Conway, the nineteen-year-old son of Patrick Conway, 172 South Street, Lochgelly, lost is life and two others were injured in a mining accident which took place at No.11 Pit, Lumphinnans Colliery, near Cowdenbeath, belonging to the Fife coal Co (Ltd.). Conway was following his usual employment in No 4 Glasee section, together with James Dickson, who resides at Boyd's Building's Kelty and William Scott, Main Street, Hill of Beath, when a heavy fall of coal occurred. Dickson and Scott managed to scramble clear, but Conway was pinned beneath the debris. A rescue party immediately set to work in an endeavour to extricate the unfortunate man alive, and they had nearly succeeded when a second fall took place completely burying him. When eventually extricated, death was found to be due to suffocation. Dickson was the more badly hurt of the other two, his arm being severely lacerated, while Scott escaped with a slight leg injury. As a mark of sympathy the pit was completely idle yesterday. [Scotsman 16 May 1931]