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Surname
FOWNES
Forename
Ab.
Day
18
Month
07
Year
1904
Age
48
Occupation
Pikeman
Mine/Quarry Name
Foxyards
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Thomas Baker & Son
Location
Tipton Green
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof and side (coal and old gob) in Thick Coal pickings. These man were working in a heading about 5ft.wide and 6ft. high driven through large blocks of fallen coal and old goaf and supported by timber settings about 3ft. apart. They were getting some of the broken coal behind the legs on one side of road near the back when the timber was displaced by a rush of broken coal and fine 'shutt’ or gob stuff. The men were not killed at once. and were spoken to several times by the rescuers, who had great difficulty in reaching them, owing to renewed falls of shutt it took 12 hours to recover the bodies. Death appeared to have been caused by suffocation by being buried in the fine shutt. 2 killed.