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Surname
WILLIAMS
Forename
Rees
Day
03
Month
02
Year
1908
Age
67
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Ferndale, No.8
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
D. Davis & Sons Ltd
Location
Tylorstown
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
A journey of six trams, in which were five 8 inch diameter air-pipes, was being drawn along the main level by main and tail ropes, when the rider, who was at the front end, heard something rattle. He stopped the journey, and walked back to see if anything had gone wrong. He found that one of the pipes, which had been in the fifth tram, had shifted or been knocked back into the last tram. He turned the pipe so as to put it in properly when he found deceased’s body in the train with the head cut in two. One of the two pipes in the fifth tram had somehow come in contact with the timbering, and was held, while the journey was drawn on. Deceased’s head was caught between the end of the pipe and the back of the sixth tram. He bad asked the rider, a short time before the journey started in, if he was going on, and was told that he was, and that he was to stay there until he (the rider) came back. When the start was made, deceased must have jumped into the tram after the rider had gone to the front end.