Mexborough and Swinton Times, March 7th 1902
Accident to Charles Blakemore
At Denaby Main Colliery on March 7th 1902, Charles Blakemore, a miner, had a narrow escape from being killed, a quantity of roof fell and completely buried him without warning.
Help was speedily at hand, but so large was the quantity of fallen debris that Blakemore was expected to be dead when got out.
The gang of rescuers worked hard for about three quarters of an hour, and eventually found him huddled up and severely injured, beneath stones of huge dimensions, which, as they fell formed a kind of arch over the man, and thus saved him from what surely would have been instant death.
When at length he was extricated, he found to be badly cut and bruised from head to foot, and he was conveyed to the Mexborough Montagu Cottage Hospital with all speed, where he now lies in a critical state.