South Yorkshire Times – December 30, 1932

The Casualty List

Toll of Pit, Road and River

July.

9—Thomas Axe (46), road sweeper, Mexboro’, died in hospital following scratch on eye: Accidental death.

19—Lily Croft (9), Conisboro’, knocked down by motor-car: Accidental death.

17—Sarah Hill (58), married, Denaby, found gassed at home: Suicide white of unsound mind.

28—Thomas Robinson   steward, Wombwell Conservative Club, died in Beckett Hospital, following septic arm: Death due to accident to elbow.

August.

2—Sydney Pugh (15), haulage hand, Denaby, fell from bridge on to L.N.E.R. line at Denaby Accidental death.

7—Michael Coffin (66), by-product worker, Brampton, collapsed at work at Cortonwood: Heart disease.

15—Louisa Lee (62), Goldthorpe, body recovered from canal at Swinton: Suicide in fit of depression

19—Frank Hillerby (60) tobacconist, Mexborough, killed in cross-roads motoring smash near Ferrybridge: Accidental

25—Michael Burke (35), miner, Wombwell, found dead in outbuilding: Asphyxiation

26—Arthur Monks (35), miner, Goldthorpe, killed by fall of roof in Hickleton Main: Accidental death.

September.

10— John William Cook (71) former plate layer Mexboro’, found, on death in West Riding Mental Hospital, Wakefield, to have fourteen ribs broken: Open verdict

17—John Calderbank (31), commission agent, Goldthorpe, and William Marsh (28) Skellow, fatally injured while motorcycling at Pontefract: Accidental death.

Harold Bowes (28), Thurnscoe, recovered from Dearne: Open verdict.

28 — Thomas Arthur Steer (38), miner, Thurnscoe, found hanging: Suicide while of unsound mind.

October.

7— John James Gillespie (33), miner, Wath, buried by burst of soft coal from sides at Manvers Main : Accidental death.

Robert John Saxton (27), Kilnhurst struck by flying chain of crane: Accidental death.

10—Robert John Sussan (40), killed by fall of roof at Hickleton Main: Accidental death.

11—Wilfred Whitehouse (39), caretaker-operator, Mexboro’ Post Office, found gassed: Suicide while of unsound mind.

November.

23—Decapitated body of Friend Diggles unemployed Swinton, miner, found on L.N.E. Railway, Mexboro’: Suicide while of unsound mind.

December.

7—Stephen Willis (26), Wath, killed while motor-cycling in Bolton Road, Swinton: Accidental death

11—Thomas Shannon (36), inmate of Rotherham Institution, formerly of Wath, found in canal at Rotherham: Found drowned.

13—Arthur Holmes (60), miner, Denaby, fatally injured while trying to escape from fall at Denaby Main: Accidental death