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Surname
GREIG
Forename
Andrew
Day
02
Month
12
Year
1924
Age
48
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Dundonald
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cardenden
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
2 October 1924: Two Men Killed - Dundonald Pit Accident - Two miners lost their lives in Dundonald Colliery Cardenden, early on Thursday morning, being electrocuted while working a cutting machine. They were Andrew Greig (48) East Cottages, Bowhill, and Samuel Marshall (25) Dundonald Den. Both men were married, Greig leaving a widow and grown-up family, and Marshall a widow and two young children. The circumstances surrounding the deaths of the men are enveloped in mystery. Officials, mine inspectors, insurance agents and a number of workmen went down the mine to examine the position in the forenoon, but, on ascending, Mr Jas. Paul, refused to give any particulars of the affair. The men were engaged cutting coal with a machine when something went wrong with the driving power, causing an electric explosion at the machine end. It is supposed that a stone had fallen on the cable and caused the fusing. The men were speaking to the brushers shortly before they were found by Peter Malone, a Pole, who was engaged beside them securing the roof in front of them. [Dunfermline Journal 4 October 1924]