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Dreadful Mining Accident-Kingswinford Print E-mail
Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844
 
EIGHT LIVES LOST
 
 
    On Monday morning last a most calamitous  and extensive loss loss of life
occurred at a mine at Kingswinford, belonging,  we are informed, to Messrs.
MATTHEWS.
 
    The men were descending to their work,  when a rope sustaining the skip
broke, and they were all, eight in number,  precipitated to the bottom and
killed.
 
    At the moment we write this it is  believed not to be the full extent of
the calamity, as it is thought that  another person at the bottom of the pit
has been killed by the fall of the skip.  To whom the blame may attach on the
melancholy occasion it would of course be  premature to assert.
 
- Wolverhampton Chronicle.
 
 
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