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Surname
BAXTER
Forename
James
Day
15
Month
11
Year
1928
Age
54
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Blantyreferme
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
15 November 1928: Uddingston - Colliery Fatality - About 6 o'clock on Thursday morning, while a number of miners were at work in the virgin seam of Messrs A.G. Moore & Coy's Blantyre Ferme Colliery, Uddingston, one miner named James Baxter was missed from his place, and on a search being made a heavy body of gas was encountered. One miner endeavoured to enter the place and became unconscious, a second and then a third all becoming unconscious. Gas masks were then got and other men entered to rescue their comrades, who recovered immediately on reaching the surface. The missing man, being furthest in, was ultimately brought out, but every effort at resuscitation failed, and the body was brought up and conveyed to his lodgings at 36 Copeland Terrace, Uddingston. Deceased was 54 years of age and recently came from Lochore, Fife, where he leaves a widow and grown up family. The survivors who assisted in the rescue operations were William Russell, Cambuslang; Archibald Chisholm, under manager, Woodlands Avenue, Bothwell; Archibald Shearer, Larkfield, Blantyre and J M'Kenna, Woodlands Avenue, Bothwell. [Hamilton Advertiser 17 November 1928]