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Surname
FERRIS
Forename
Thomas
Day
28
Month
08
Year
1917
Age
23
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bothwell Castle, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Blantyre
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
27 and 28 August 1917: Blantyre – Two Colliery Fatalities – Two lives were lost at the Priory Colliery, Blantyre, this week. On Monday, Edward M'Laughlin, 17, a clipper, residing at 21 Dixon Street, Dixon's Rows, was caught between a pair of loaded hutches in the south Pyotshaw seam sustaining a fracture of the skull from which he died almost immediately afterwards. Failing to get from M'Laughlin a signal to start the hutches, a fellow workman went back and found the deceased in the position stated. On Tuesday in the Upper Ell seam of No.3 Pit, Thomas Ferris, 23, miner, 51 Auchinraith Road, Blantyre, met with injuries which resulted in his death shortly after midnight. Three tons of rock came away from the roof and he was partly buried in the debris. When extricated he was at once conveyed to the surface and attended by Drs J C Wilson and T P Grant, but their efforts were unavailing. Deceased's brother John who was beside him at the time of the accident, had a narrow escape. [Hamilton Advertiser 1 September 1917]