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Surname
EVANS
Forename
Enoch
Day
14
Month
02
Year
1907
Age
63
Occupation
Roadsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Ferndale, No.7
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
D. Davis & Sons Ltd
Location
Tylorstown
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Deceased was waiting for the shift to end to cut some bottom on a dip on which there were two roads. A journey of full trams was being drawn up each road, one 600 yards in advance of the other. A repairer, standing about 10 yards from deceased, heard one journey approaching, and called to deceased who replied ‘all right.’ As the journey passed the repairer, he heard what he thought was a mandrill rattling under the trains and stopped it, He then discovered deceased under the fifth tram, quite dead. The dip was 13ft wide and deceased had been standing by a manhole. How he got under the trams no one knows.