Ecclesfield Quarry Accident, 1912.

The following details about the the accident were published in a Newspaper article on Saturday March 16th 1912 and can be seen below:

        BURIED ALIVE - Deaf Youth; Awful End, Narrow Escapes.

Twenty experienced miners were for 27 hours increasingly engaged in relays in an extrordinary work of attempted rescue at Ecclesfield,near Sheffield.

At noon, on Saturday afternoon, after leaving work at the foundry of Messrs William Green & Co. Clifford Robinson (16) of Priory Road, Ecclesfield, the only breadwinner of a widowed mother and family, descented a 20ft shafting in a disused stone stone quarry at Town end, Ecclesfield, belonging to the Duke Of Norfolk.

The shaft had originally been used as a well but had recently been adapted for mining purposes by colliers on strike.  A number of drifts had been opened and along one of these, Robinson and his companions - three experienced miners - were in search of fresh seams of coal.

Suddenly, an ominous rumbling noise was heard by the three colliers who immediately dashed to the foot of the shafting and climbed to safety.  Being deaf, however, Robinson neither heard the noise of the dislocated materials nor the warning of his companions and he was buried by the tremendous fall of rock.   

Twenty experienced miners worked in relays to reach him and one of them, Lawrence Barnes, was later awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society. Clifford Robinson was buried in Ecclesfield Cemetery 4 days later on the 20th March 1912.

            

 

 

 

 

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