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Surname
WYLLIE
Forename
John
Day
04
Month
01
Year
1900
Age
39
Occupation
Roadsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Auchlochan
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
W.C.S. Cunningham
Location
Coalburn
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was acting temporarily as bottomer in a shaft in which there were two landings, one of them being eight fathoms above the bottom. Only ten miners were employed in the Upper Seam, and one bottomer acted for both landings, riding from one to the other as required. Deceased was descending from the upper to the lower landing, and while closing the gate behind him at the former, appeared to have slipped between the end of the cage and the side of the shaft, and to have fallen to the bottom, the cage descending and resting upon him. He was extricated immediately, but died a minute or two afterwards.