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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Samuel
Day
29
Month
10
Year
1913
Age
32
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Auchenbegg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Waddell & Son
Location
Coalburn
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was illegally distributing detonators to the misers at the pit bottom in the Six Feet seam. He started with a box containing 100 detonators, and when the accident occurred there was one man who had not received them. It is probable 20 detonators remained in the box, when, by some means, probably a spark from his naked light which he had on his cap, they exploded and very seriously injured him. He died the following day. Four officials and a miner who were close by when the explosion occurred were slightly injured.