“The accident occurred on the main haulage road whilst repairs were being carried out on the haulage rope return wheel.The men were struck and killed by the haulage rope.

It had knocked out the catch-prop and one bar. (The nine men who died have all now been commemorated as part of the Walking Together project.). At weekends they would go down to the local miners’ welfare. The jury and Mr. White expressed sympathy with the relatives of the dead man, and Mr. Mather on behalf of the widow, acknowledged the remarks.

They had plenty of timber. In reply to questions by Mr.A.L. – Mr Humble: Did not the mensal that on account of the scaffolding being such an exceptionally heavy one that it would be unsafe to ride up and down on it in a pit of that depth? Hughes said that he saw Passey in the Ambulance Room at Markham Colliery on Friday night. He shouted a warning and as Johnson turned round he was crushed by the tub against the rails of the tippler. Green, Coroner, conducted an inquiry yesterday afternoon at the Railway Hotel, Whittington Moor, into the death of Joseph Fullwood, aged 25,of St. John’s Square, Newbold, was was employed as a stableman at Markham Colliery, belonging to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. The Inspector: Therefore a man working at the coal face would be on his knees? He said that Hill was a single man.

Witness agreed that the deceased, by removing coal from the face, had liberated the slip. The other alternative was that it might have been deliberately removed for some other purpose, but his enquiries had failed to reveal any evidence pf this.

The observation had reference to the statement that the deceased, in making room in the coal face for the fixing of a bar, liberated “a slip” in the roof which crashed down upon him, killing him almost instantaneously. Witness did not think anything could have prevented the fall. Production from the Blackshale seam commenced in 1989. Sympathy with the relatives was expressed by the Coroner, Mr.Kitts.

He was the eldest son of Mr. Stephen Rhodes, who was also closely associated with football some time ago.

I did not go to see the cause. Green conducted the inquiry on Thursday, at Brampton. Mr. Palmer was working underground at Markham No. -Yes, until my attention was drawn off. It was placed where they had previously turned the machine.

He was looking across the shop from his cab and could not see the painters. He was breathing when he (witness) first found him, but he though that he died as he was taken along the coal face on the way out.

Dr. Green held an inquest at the Chesterfield Hospital yesterday on the body of a miner named William Burrows (30), who died on the 29th ult., as the result of an accident at the Markham Colliery, belonging to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. John Pacy leaves a wife and seven children. He died on Friday. Mr. Spencer: There are times when one cannot liberate the clip as easily as one would like? Everyone did everything  possible to rescue the trapped man. He was a member of the Barlboro’ Platoon of Home Guard. Did you see any break or slips in the roof? It had always seemed to be a very good strong roof to the witness., and he had never had any trouble with it before. When the accident occurred he was working on his first shift in that capacity. But the Coroner in his summing up, commented: “I do not think that this boy displayed any criminal negligence.

Fint (H.M. The Coroner asked the doctor if it would have been possible for the man to have had a light hemorrhage and have recovered sufficiently in ten day to resume work without it showing any signs. The Coroner: Did you think he was seriously hurt?

Middleton (Chesterfield and District Deputy Coroner). William Pacy was unmarried, being only 17 years of age.

The funeral was at Newbold Church on Saturday. – Which would that have been? In the pit yard the men on the day shift were arriving ready to start work at 6am. Hall (h.M. Bolsover Methodism has lost a prominent worker in the death of Mr. Robinson. Witness asked where the driver was, and the lad replied that he was under the dirt.

He went downhill, collapsing rapidly.

He shouted to me to go to him and asked my opinion how he should get off a large corner of coal. Addressing the jury, the Coroner said that since Clayton had been at home the company had done all they could to ensure his comfort and had spent nearly £15 in providing him with various necessities to try and make his position more comfortable. While he was taking out the cotter pin, of a wagon in the colliery yard, a shunter, Charles Davidson, not knowing that he was there, released the brake.

These empties had to cross the “full” road to get into the gate. At an inquest at Chesterfield yesterday (Thursday) on John Higginson (61), 19, Lawn Villas, Calow, who was involved in a cage accident at Markham No.2 Colliery on Tuesday morning, the jury were faced with conflicting evidence. Whelpdale, Tuxford, Marples and Duckmanton were struck by falling masonry. A shot had been fired 20 yards away about an hour and a half before the fall, but witness expressed the opinion that the shot had nothing to do with the fall. The Co-op will be seeing his widow today to arrange his funeral. Shortly after he had taken over as mate in a coal-cutting operation underground at Markham No.1 Colliery on May 24, a 24-year old Holymoorside miner, was killed by a roof fall. In his summing up the Coroner made the statement quoted above and said that everything appeared to have been done in accordance with normal practice. Can you suggest anything which might have prevented this accident? – Yes. After Martha Ashley, the wife of Henry Ashley, of 24, Sunny Springs, Chesterfield had described her brother as a strong healthy man. Recently – even before the ban – he’d not been doing much overtime except on rush jobs. -No. Deceased was cutting the tops of coal down when suddenly witness heard the roof fall, and on turning round saw the deceased partly covered by the fall.

No.

He kept his head throughout the performance, said Mr. Hanna, and he did all he could to help the injured man. 2) pit. He added that the roof was generally good at that place.

– I should say so. He arranged for Shaw to complete the cutting and Vickers replaced Nash, who had to go away on a visit to a hospital.

I never went into the engine house. He was in a sitting position with his head bent forward, and his legs and head clear of the cage.

There was no braver man and no man was prepared to take greater risks to help his comrades than the Derbyshire miner.

When you released the stone from Morpus’s leg , is it true that the blood spurted out to a height of 18 inches? – John Pacy. – It might have done, but I was not there to give him instructions at the time. Dr. E.F. Buckler, house surgeon at Chesterfield Hospital, said the whole of Sparrow’s left side was extensively lacerated.

Worthington) said the Company was taking added precautions in view of the accident, but there was nothing to suggest that every proper  precaution had not been taken already. Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Dobson, the widow, stated that her husband’s eyesight and hearing was good. – Yes. On the day referred to, one of witness’s tubs ran off the line. On the 6th inst., the day of the accident, deceased came home about six o’clock in the morning, calling out, “George, come.” and he said he had been hurt on the head by a lump of dirt, and that he had travelled the 90 minutes walk home by the help of two men. At the time of the accident he was three or four yards away.

– Was your indicator in good order?

A fall of side in Markham No. Goodall, a ripper, was working on the night shift in the top hard seam in No.1 Colliery, and was setting a bar when a fall of roof occurred. Bottoms replied “Oh dear, Oh dear, come here.” Answering the call he found bottoms carrying his lamp but the light was out. Deceased happened to pass at the time, and he (witness) asked him to lend a hand to get it placed in position again. A lovingly kept family and home, and happy memories of those holidays he worked overtime to get. Munkley called him to the stall again at about 2.45 a.m., and he ran to the stall and found deceased pinned to the ground by a heavy stone weighing 12 to 13 cats. The story of the accident was related by Albert Mitchell, of Shuttlewood, at the inquest held by Dr. A.

Halkin, North Road, Duckmanton, stallman, and Harry Orwin, Arkwright Town, deputy, said there was no sign of any break in the roof.

Poolsbrook Miner Crushed Between Wagon Couplings.