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Surname
McKINNEY
Forename
Annie
Day
16
Month
08
Year
1905
Age
11
Occupation
Schoolgirl
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitehaven
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Whitehaven Colliery Co.
Location
Whitehaven
County
Cumberland
Details of Event
The coal from the Croft pit is taken by a locomotive to an incline, down which the wagons are run to the harbour. The road inclines a little from the pit. A train of 18 loaded wagons was being taken to the incline and in some way the last wagon was became uncoupled and deceased, who was trespassing on the railway collecting coal that had fallen from trains, had not noticed the uncoupled wagon, which followed the train ran by gravity and she was caught by it. The coupling is a chain and some of the couplings were not in very good order. Female.