Newspaper Transcription MM76 |
| 1935, 28th May JAMES ELLIOT FATALITY AT GATESIDE PIT A distressing accident occurred at Gateside Colliery yesterday afternoon
whereby James Elliot, aged 37 years, a colliery engineer, who resided
at Anderson Street, Kelloholm, Kirkconnel, was fatally injured. Elliot,
along with other engineers, was repairing a breakdown in connection
with the dross elevators after the pit had ceased work. Apparently
the elevator chain which carries the dross buckets slipped and fell
back into the hole, carrying the unfortunate man with it, and death
was instantaneous.
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