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Surname
JOHNSTONE
Forename
John
Day
13
Month
05
Year
1912
Age
45
Occupation
Stone Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Gilmilnscroft, No.6 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Auchinleck
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
Deceased and a neighbour were working in a stone drift, and after shots had been fired in a thin coal holing bed, they were clearing the small coal and squaring the holing back. Deceased was working with a pick, and struck part of an undetonated Samsonite cartridge. An explosion "like the shot of a gun" followed, and both men had their eyes filled with dust. Deceased, who had been lying stretched out when the explosion occurred, received a small wound in his right side. He died on the 19th May.