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Surname
NEILSON
Forename
Alexander
Day
22
Month
11
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Hamilton Palace
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bent Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Bothwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
22 November 1915: Bothwell – Miner Killed – A distressing fatality took place on Monday evening in the Bent Colliery Company's Palace Colliery, Bothwellhaugh. While some men were engaged at repairing work in one of the roadways, a quantity of strata came away from the roof. Alexander Neilson, a miner, who resided at Palace Colliery Rows, was caught under the fall and almost instantaneously killed. Deceased leaves a widow and large family. [Hamilton Herald 24 November 1915] While Alexander Neilson, a miner, Palace Rows, Bothwellhaugh, was at work yesterday in the Bent Coal Company’s Palace Colliery, a huge fall of strata fell upon him from the roof, killing him almost instantaneously. He leaves a widow and large family. [Glasgow Herald 23 November 1915]