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Surname
HALL
Forename
Thomas
Day
21
Month
08
Year
1933
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Cardowan
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Dunlop & Co. Ltd
Location
Stepps
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
19 and 21 August 1933 :Cardowan Pit Tragedies - Fatal Accidents Inquiry at Glasgow - The circumstances surrounding two fatal accidents at Cardowan Colliery, Stepps, were inquired into in the Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow, yesterday . The first fatality occurred on August 19, when a miner was found drowned in a sump. He was James Kirkwood (55), 34 Robertson Crescent, Baillieston, and the jury returned a verdict that he was accidentally killed by falling into the sump, death being due to drowning. In the course of the evidence, the theory was advanced that Kirkwood's cap having fallen into the sump at the bottom of the shaft, he also fell into it in an endeavour to recover his cap. The second inquiry concerned the deaths of three men , James Halliday Matheson, Dungeonhill Cottage , Easterhouse; Robert Brown, 22 Cessnock Road, Millerston; and Thomas Hall, 690 Springfield Road, Glasgow, who were killed by a fall from the roof. James Johnston, Whitehill Avenue, Stepps, the acting manager at the colliery, stated that the three men were employed at the west level, the roof of which was kept up by timber props. Along with the Inspector of Mines, witness found that approximately 20 tons of stone had come away from the roof, and had fallen on the three men. A miner named John Mullan said that he was about three feet away when the roof collapsed. There was no warning, and he did not think the fall could have been prevented. [Scotsman 16 September 1933] Found Drowned in Pit - A miner, James Kirkwood (53), who resided al 34 Swinton Road, Baillieston, was discovered lying dead in the sump at No. 2 pit of Cardowan Colliery, near Stepps, on Saturday. Kirkwood was employed on the night-shift, and when he failed to signal from the pit bottom, inquiries were made and his body was discovered floating in the sump. [Scotsman 21 August 1933] Three miners were killed, and three others had remarkable escapes, when a fall occurred in No. 1 section, Cardowan Colliery, Stepps, near Glasgow, yesterday. Eleven persons were killed at Cardowan Colliery last November by an explosion. The colliery is owned by Messrs. James Dunlop and Co., and employs 691 men below ground. [The Times August 22 1933]