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Surname
DEWAR
Forename
James
Day
13
Month
06
Year
1913
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
He went back about 4 yards into the waste for his axe, when a large fall of roof took place without any warning whatever and completely buried him. When his body was recovered an hour later life was found to be extinct, death being due to suffocation.