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Surname
FEWKES
Forename
Joseph
Day
23
Month
08
Year
1904
Age
18
Occupation
Loader
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitwick, No.6
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Whitwick Colliery Co.
Location
Coalville
County
Leicestershire
Details of Event
Deceased and another man were taking a full tub through a brattice cloth hung at the gate end, when a lighted candle placed on the buffer of the tub set fire to the brattice cloth and burned two men. Deceased died 2nd Sept.