Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	18th September 1959
Colliery:	Auchengeich
Cause:	Underground fire caused by frictional heat generated between the rotating motor pulley and the balata transmission belt of the electrically driven booster fan
Lives Lost:	47

	Beattie, A. M., aged 26
	Bone, T., aged 27
	Broadley, F., aged 38
	Brynes, W., aged 54
	Cannon, M. McI., aged 38
	Clark, W., aged 61
	Clayton, H., aged 62
	Conn, R., aged 30
	Crombie, A., aged 42
	Devine, J., aged 39
	Docherty, A. W., aged 43
	Duffy, J., aged 39
	Fisher, F. J., aged 49
	Fleming, M., aged 51
	Fleming, M., aged 47
	Hamilton, R., aged 48
	Harvey, J., aged 44
	Harvey, P., aged 33
	Henery, E., aged 61
	Jackson, G., aged 21
	Kelly, P., aged 40
	Kiernan, F., aged 26
	Lafferty, W., aged 39
	Lang, A. T., aged 35
	Leishman, W., aged 56
	Martin, G. J., aged 34
	McAuley, J., aged 42
	McCoid, R., aged 55
	McDonald, J., aged 53
	McElhaney, D., aged 49
	McEwan, G. T. T., aged 20
	McIntosh, G. W., aged 58
	McKenna, A., aged 41
	McKenna, P., aged 55
	McPhee, J., aged 54
	Meechan, W., aged 22
	Muir, J., aged 38
	Mulholland, J., snr., aged 50
	Nimmo, J., aged 32
	Price, A., aged 50
	Price, R., aged 47
	Sharp, A., aged 34
	Shevlin, J., aged 46
	Skilling, W., aged 53
	Stark, J. M., aged 23
	Stokes, T., aged 32
	Weir, D. C., aged 30
	All names found
	Youngest: 20 years old ; Oldest: 62 ; Average: 42

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