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Surname
WALLACE
Forename
William
Day
14
Month
10
Year
1901
Age
28
Occupation
Wagon Shunter
Mine/Quarry Name
Hill of Beath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was sitting on the buffer of the leading wagon of a train of empty wagons being pushed by the locomotive engine to the top end of the pit and when he jumped off in centre of road his foot slipped on a sleeper and he fell across the rail whereby part of the train passed over him. Death ensued two hours afterwards. The morning was frosty and there was a thin coating of ice on the sleeper.