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Surname
HALLAS
Forename
Wright
Day
11
Month
02
Year
1913
Age
23
Occupation
Coal Getter
Mine/Quarry Name
Dark Lane
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Mirfield Colliery Co.
Location
Ravensthorpe
County
Yorkshire WR
Details of Event
He was filling a tub with coal when a stone weighing about 4cwt. fell from a pot-hole in the roof on to his neck and killed him.. The stone knocked out a prop and a sleeper which was on the prop as a lid. SHOCKING DEATH IN A MIRFIELD PIT. YOUTHFUL WIDOW'S ORDEAL An inquest was held at Ravensthorpe on Thursday, by Mr. Maltland, on the body of Wight Hallas (23), miner, who met with a sudden and shocking death in the Mirfield Coal Company's pit on Tuesday. The young widow told the jury that she and deceased had only been married seven weeks. He left home about 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning to go to work, and the last she heard of him in the afternoon was that he was dead. Joseph C?? of Beckett Nook, Dewsbury Moor, miner, explained that on Tuesday about a quarter past one, he had been working about fourteen yards from deceased, and was in the act of changing his lantern?? behind a fret about when he heard a portion of the roof fall and the same time Hallas screamed. He at once proceeded to the place and was alarmed to find the young man pinned by the neck to corner of a door by a stone weighing about a quarter of a ton, which had fallen from the roof, and brought a prop and a sleeper down with it. He could see at once that Hallas' position was hopeless. He called Rhodes, Webster? and Fred Fisher?, and they tried to lift the stone off Hallas with an iron rail but could not do so, and they had to break it up before they could release the deceased's body. The jury returned a verdict that Hallas had met his death by accident.