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Surname
ANDERSON
Forename
Peter
Day
02
Month
02
Year
1925
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Kirkford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
2 February 1925: Fife Pit Accidents – Two Killed; Three Injured – A Heavy Fall - Kirkford Pit, a Cowdenbeath colliery, was the scene of two accidents yesterday afternoon, the second of which resulted in two men being killed. The first, accident occurred in the afternoon in the "diamond" section, when John Easson, Foulford Place, Cowdenbeath, and David Clark, Chapel Street, Cowdenbeath, were burned, through an explosion of gunpowder. Easson was able to proceed home, but Clark was conveyed to the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. Immediately afterwards the other accident was reported from the "glassee" section. Three miners, William M'Arthur (17). son of Archibald M'Arthur, Foulford road; Robert Sharp (36), single, son of Mrs Sharp, a widow, Foulford Road; and Peter Anderson, 20 Foulford Place, had been resting at the end of the roadway, when, without warning, a heavy fall of material took place. Anderson was caught by the tail end of it and escaped serious injury, but M'Arthur and Sharp were completely buried in the debris, and death in both cases must have been instantaneous. [The Scotsman 3 February 1925]