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Surname
DEMPSTER
Forename
John
Day
31
Month
01
Year
1914
Age
Occupation
Bogieman
Mine/Quarry Name
Hattonrigg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Bellshill
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
31 January 1914: Fatal Accident at Hattonrigg Colliery, Bellshill – On Saturday an accident occurred in the Hattonrigg Colliery, Bellshill, owned by the Summerlee Iron and Coal Company, by which one man was killed and another seriously injured. Two young men, William M'Callum, miner, and John Dempster, driver, were travelling along the haulage road in a hutch, when the hutch came to grief, and a rake of hutches following crashed into the obstacle. Both men were jammed by the hutches, and when extricated McCallum was dead. Dempster was more fortunate, however, yet his condition was so critical that his recovery is doubtful. [Scotsman 2 February 1914] The deceased was illegally riding on a bogie attached to a rake of hutches along with the bogieman. They allowed the rake to run free, and, in attempting to stop it by regripping the rope with the clip, the bogie tipped up and pinned them underneath, killing one and seriously injuring the other.