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| 1948, 29th March JOHN WIGHTMAN KIRKCONNEL MINING FATALITY. On. Monday night, while at his work on the afternoon shift in the
section of No. 1 Fauldhead Pit, known as Neil's Dook, a young man,
John Wightman, aged 23 years, who resided with his parents at 75 Kingsway,
was accidentally killed. He was in the act of conveying material to
the coal face, and in the act of doing so apparently contacted an
electric cable. Dr Bowman Edgar, who descended the pit to attend to
him found life extinct.
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