MINING TRAGEDY
MATE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. DISTRACTED WORKER’S SUICIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 15. An inquest at Frome (Somerset) revealed a shocking underground mining tragedy, a collier, commiting suicide because he had accidentally killed his mate. A blaster named Berryman fired a charge in a lonely part of the workings which accidentally killed Button, who was working with him. Distracted with grief, Berryman took the battery forty yards from the dead man, placed the detonator in his mouth, and exploded it. The tragedy was revealed by a note in Berryman’s hand writing to the colliery manager. “I met with a misfortune. Poor old pal! Not knowing he had the cable connected I connected the cable too at the end. To catise no trouble I take my own life. I can truthfully say it was an accident. All my belongings go to my wife and children. God bless thefu all, and forgive me. B. Berryman.”
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Southland Times, Issue 18970, 18 June 1923, Page 5
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154MINING TRAGEDY Southland Times, Issue 18970, 18 June 1923, Page 5
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