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Surname
DOWIE
Forename
Thomas Melville
Day
25
Month
02
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Waggon Shunter
Mine/Quarry Name
Kinglassie
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kinglassie
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Fife Colliery Fatalities - Inquiry was also held into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Melville Dowie, waggon shunter, 4 Eleventh Street, Cardenden, who was killed while shunting waggons at Kinglassie Colliery. John Millar, manager of the colliery, suggested that after running some waggons down a hill, Dowie was passing between the first seven and the last one, and got caught. The rails were in a slippery condition. It might have been deceased slipped in front of the waggons. A formal verdict was returned. [Dunfermline Journal 30 March 1929]