Newspaper Transcription MM24 & MM25

1926, 19th April

CHARLES MCINTOSH

and

ROBERT REDMOND

KIRKCONNEL PIT ACCIDENTS

Miner Dies from Injuries

During the week-end an alarming series of accidents occurred in the Fauldhead Collieries of the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries. On Monday night Robert Redmond, 42 years of age, who resides in Kingsway, Kellobank, was working on the afternoon shift, and was in the act of preparing a blasting shot in his working place in Young's Dook No. 1 Pit, when for some unaccountable reason the shot went off, and he received the force of it about the head and body. He was severely injured about the face, and was conveyed to Dumfries Infirmary, after receiving first aid treatment.
Charles McIntosh, a young miner who resided at the Model lodging-house in Back Street, was injured on Thursday night, and died from his injuries in Dumfries Infirmary on Friday. Deceased, who was a native of Paisley, had left the coal face with a loaded hutch of coals, and was delayed on the way out. Unfortunately another loaded hutch crashed into McIntosh, who was jammed between the two hutches and sustained a fractured spine. His remains were conveyed to his home in Paisley.
On Saturday William Sloane, miner, who resides in St Conal's Square, was injured by a fall from the roof, his left hand being crushed, and it was found necessary to amputate two fingers.
John Laird, miner, Kirkland Cottage, who is employed in No. 1 Fauldhead Pit, was attaching a hutch to a haulage when the wire rope broke and the clutch rebounded, with the result that Laird sustained a fractured arm.

Dumfries & Galloway Standard 21/04/1926 / W / 4 / F - MM24 & MM25