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Surname
WALLS
Forename
Alexander
Day
19
Month
02
Year
1921
Age
Occupation
Surfaceman
Mine/Quarry Name
Little Raith, Gordon Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Alexander Walls, a surfaceman who resided at Landale Terrace, Cowdenbeath, met with his death under distressing circumstances on Saturday. About 7.15am he was engaged in pushing a waggon at the sidings of the Gordon Pit, when another unexpectedly came up from behind. Walls was caught and crushed between the buffers of the two waggons and was killed almost instantaneously. [Dunfermline Journal 26 February 1921]