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| 1907, 6th July ARCHIBALD TELFER FATALITY IN SANQUHAR COAL PIT An accident, unhappily attended with fatal results, occurred at Gateside
coal pit, Sanquhar on Saturday morning when Archibald Telfer, a miner,
residing in Castle Street, Sanquhar, lost his life. Telfer was one
of a squad of men engaged at an underground working known as Johnstone’s
mine. His duty consisted of helping others at a windless used in drawing
up the loaded hutches and lowering empty ones: and also conveying
the loaded hutches from the windless to the electric haulage and returning
with the empties. About half past ten in the morning he was going
with some loaded hutches to the electric haulage, while the others
of the squad were proceeding down the incline to fill the empty hutches.
They had not been long there when they heard a noise of empty hutches
rushing down the incline; and on going up to see what was wrong, they
found Telfer lying between the rails and partly below an empty hutch,
his head in front of it and his right foot resting on the hind axle.
He was severely injured about the head, was breathing slowly, and
was unable to speak. Arrangements were made for his removal to the
surface, but before these could be carried out he died. The body was
examined by Dr. Rodger, who certified death to be due to fracture
of the skull.
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