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Surname
McCUE
Forename
Patrick
Day
21
Month
02
Year
1933
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Manor Powis
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Manor Powis Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Causewayhead
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
21 February 1933: Pinned Down By Boulder - Stirling Miner's Eight Hours' Ordeal in Pit Mishap - Thirty miners worked for nearly eight hours in Manor Powis Colliery, Stirling, yesterday morning, to free one of their comrades who had been trapped under a heavy fall of rock. Patrick M'Cue, St Mary's Wynd, was brushing in the Armstrong section, at a part which is only about 20 inches high, when the fall occurred. He was pinned down by a stone weighing many tons, the upper part of his body was free of debris, however, and the rescuers were able to pass stimulants to M'Cue, who kept up a cheery conversation and sang occasionally, although he was in great pain. The stone had to be jacked up before he could be liberated. M'Cue was carried half a mile by stretcher to the pit bottom, taken to the surface, and removed to Stirling Infirmary, where it was learned he had sustained severe injuries to the lower part of the body, and that both his legs were broken. [Scotsman 22 February 1933] Stirling Miner Dies From Injuries - The death occurred in Stirling Royal Infirmary yesterday of Patrick M'Cue, the young Stirling miner who was trapped under a stone for eight hours at Manor Powis Colliery, Stirling, on Tuesday. M'Cue sustained a fracture of the pelvis and a fracture of both legs. He displayed great bravery during the eight hours that thirty of his colleagues worked unceasingly to extricate him from under a stone weighing many tons, and heartened his rescuers by singing and whistling during the time they were jacking up the stone. M'Cue was well-known in the Stirling district as a juvenile footballer of great promise, and played for St Mary's, Stirling. [Scotsman 23 February 1933]