The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-12-04 00:00:00

SATURDiI DECEMBER 4, 1886

THE FALL DOWN A MINE NEAR
STOURBRIDGE.

The adjouroed inquest was resumed by Mr.
Edwin:Docker (depty coroner), at the Crown It n,
Starnber Mill, Stonrbrid,o, on Monday, toivhieg the
death o!" John Jar°lan, a miner, who died from the
(fleets of a fall from a coal-skip at Mr. Bowen's
mine, BrettelL Lane, on the 17th November. Mr.
Scott, mine inspector, end Mr. Pickering.. as,iwant
inspector attended the inquiry, at which Mr. ilin
appeared for the friends t,f dece:ia-A. The mine
wh re the accident occurred includes clay-workings
and a coal inset abave the clay. Jordan (al the
ab :vs day was n,)t required in the mine, and
a.:icording to , thi eticlenco of George Wall, the
hor,o driver, in the city woi kings, he was seat
going towardA the bottom of -the shaft shortly be-
fare the accident, and, from 4 hat followed, it
appeared that he got into a coal-sk'p that happened
to be at the bottom of the shaft, and himself gave
the signal to be drawn up —Joseph Hill, the charter-
master at the pit, stated that he was in the coal in
' set at the time of the accident, and saw Jordan
coming up f oni the clay inset in a skip. 'There was
. fl )thing besides the skip and rings, and it was con-
trary to the rules for him to come up in the empty
skip. The rings of the skip got under the sill by
the coal in-et. and the skip was upset, and Jordan
fell out. Witness said he had never teen men come
up that way before. Witness engaged Wall, the
horse-driver, who a!so acted as eager. Fie told him
to read the rules when he engaged him his du y as
cager.—Wall. on bAnz ree lied, said he never read
the rules till the first day of the inquest. It he was
at the botto-n of the &Aft when the men wanted to
go up he "rang them up," but if wit ti,ey rang
themselves up on their own responsibility. Mr.
Scott said it seemed to be a happy-go-lucky way of
the men getting out of the pit as they could.—The
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," add
log that in tneir opinion better care and stri ter
attention to the rules and regulations ought to be
exercised in the management of the pit, and that
the charter-master, Joseph. Hid, was to . blame in
not having given more definite!and clear instructions
to the ringer-up as to the pr"pJr performance of his
duties.

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