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Old 15-03-2014, 05:05 PM
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Burial at St Lawrence, Warkworth:
Thomas Thompson of Togston buried 9 January 1868, aged 19 years.

Newcastle Courant, 10 January:-
"On Monday evening a fatal accident occurred at Togston Colliery. A father and son, named respectively John and Thomas Thompson, went to work at a sinking shaft now in operation at the above place. It is the shaft now used as the working shaft, and which they were sinking to a lower seam at night, after the regular work of the day is over. Before drawing the water out of the sump (which is seven fathoms deep, there being about ten feet of water in at the time), they, along with another man, proceeded to repair a cistern, from which the water runs into the standage, where stands the pumps. The young man, Thomas Thompson, was stepping across the trap door, which he had newly raised, when he fell to the bottom. Assistance was quickly at hand, but it was nearly two hours before he was got out of the water, life was found to be extinct."
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