Stanrigg mining accident
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stanrigg-mining-accident-164-14401794
title:
Stanrigg mining accident
text:
The Stanrigg mining accident, also known as the Stanrigg Pit disaster or the Arbuckle Pit disaster, was a coal mining accident which occurred on 9 July 1918 at the Arbuckle Pit of Stanrigg Colliery near the town of Airdrie in what is now North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Nineteen miners died including six teenage boys. Eleven bodies were never recovered and remain entombed at the site. The cause was subsidence of the overlying peat bog or moss in local parlance. A memorial monument now stands close t
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1918 coal mining accident in Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanrigg_mining_accident
date created:
2024-02-05T20:24:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T05:06:45Z
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