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Surname
STEWART
Forename
Charles Stevewright
Day
22
Month
12
Year
1914
Age
16
Occupation
Moving Waggons
Mine/Quarry Name
Auckland Park
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd
Location
Bishop Auckland
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased had to move wagons under an old; hempstead where two classes of wagons were used; one passed the uprights of the structure with a clearance of 8 inches, and the other just cleared. Of three wagons which stood coupled above the hempstead, he had to lower the first, a narrow one, and leave the other two fast both wide ones. Later it was found that all three wagons had been moved; the brakes were all off and they were all coupled. Evidently the boy had stood on the buffer of the first wagon and taken the brake off. He was crushed between the second wagon and the post, near to which his body was found.