South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 06 February 1903

Sad Death of a Mexborough Miner

Killed by a Fall of Coal

On Tuesday, about midday, a trammer, Alfred Hammond by name of 5 Kirby St, Mexborough, was working in No. 2, Manvers Main Colliery, when a mass of coal (“bags”) fell from the roof catching the poor fellow on the back of his head and killing him instantly.

The roof had been inspected earlier in the day, and there was no trace of a slip, and his death was neither due to carelessness or negligence, but simply another case of the unforeseen dangers of the pit life.

Deceased was 29 years of age, and worked at the colliery for 12 or 13 years, leaves a wife and three children, one actually deeply grieved at losing a husband and father.