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| 8th February, 1878 ARCHIBALD CRICHTON FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT On Monday, Archibald Crichton, collier, residing at Crawick Mill, was at work at Bankhead pit, where a portion of the roof, nearly ten feet square by 2½ thick, fell upon him. Two other men were at work a short distance and heard the fall. On Crichton being extricated, life was extinct, the pick which he had been working with had been driven into his brain.
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