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Surname
SALONITIS
Forename
Antanas
Day
24
Month
10
Year
1928
Age
18
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Viewpark
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Viewpark
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
24 October 1928: Uddingston – Miner Killed – On Thursday afternoon of last week, as Antanas Salonitis, a young Pole, residing at Main Street, Bellshill, was at work in Messrs Addie & Sons' Viewpark Colliery, he is reported to have run a hutch against an upright steel support underground, knocking away a girder with the result that the roof gave way, and he was buried in the debris. On being extricated, life was found to be extinct. Deceased was only 18 years of age, and only recently joined the mining. [Hamilton Advertiser 3 November 1928] NB Death certificate gives name as Antanas Staloraitis