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Surname
WELSH
Forename
Thomas
Day
24
Month
07
Year
1917
Age
57
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochend
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Longriggend
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Thomas Welsh (57), miner, Roughrigg Row, Longriggend, met with a fatal accident about 5 a.m. on Tuesday while working in Lochend Colliery, Caldercruix, New Monkland, owned by James Nimmo & Co., Ltd. It appears from inquiry made that the deceased and a man Campbell had been engaged brushing. About 11.15 they fired a shot, and while they were clearing away the dirt knocked off the roof by the shot Campbell, who was working about three yards away from the deceased, heard a wheezing noise, and, thinking that something had happened to the deceased, he hurried to see what was the cause of the sound. He found Welsh lying on the ground on his right side, with a stone weighing about 6 cwt. Lying on his body and head. Campbell ran for assistance, and with others got the stone removed. Welsh, however, had expired. The body was conveyed to the pithead and it was taken to his home in a cart. Dr Young, Slamannan, who examined the body, certified death as due to injuries to head and body and suffocation. [Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser 28 July 1917]