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Surname
SHARKEY
Forename
Felix
Day
27
Month
01
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Blantyreferme
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
27 January 1915: Uddingston – Serious Accident – About 3 o'clock on Wednesday a serious accident took place in Messrs A.G. Moore & Company's Blantyre Ferme Colliery, when, owing to a rake of hutches breaking away on the main road of the Glasgow upper seam of the pit and striking the girders, which gave way, a heavy fall took place, and two miners – Felix Sharkey, Gardenside, Uddingston, and Wm Mitchell, Cambuslang - were buried in the debris. The doctors and ambulance waggon were at once sent for, and a gang of men set to work to relieve the entombed men, who, after a full hour, were extricated. Mitchell escaped with slight injuries but Sharkey was more seriously hurt. [Hamilton Herald 30 January 1915]