Here's another shaft fall from Radcliffe this time:
FATAL COLLIERY CALAMITY. - On Wednesday night, as Andrew Stephenson, miner, was ascending, with a barrel of the pump, the shaft of Radcliffe colliery, Amble, it became entangled with a stancheon, and, on its release by the deceased, is supposed to have struck him on the chest. He was precipitated down the shaft, whereby his skull was literally dashed into fragments, the brain being scattered about the bottom of the shaft. His death is sincerely regretted by all who knew him, and he has left a wife and large family to mourn over their irreparable loss. The deceased was remarkable for his suavity of disposition, and great attainments in botany, chemistry, conchology, and mineralogy; and the writer will not forget his scientific elucidation of the principles upon which safety lamps for the prevention of explosions in collieries are constructed, when the subject was talked of in his own house, after the lamentable catastrophe at Haswell. –Mar 15 1845
We have another shaft fall recorded on the forum somewhere: William Douglas, Radcliffe shaft again, Feb 1841.
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