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Gartanbeg?
Skoosh.
Could well be, I just put down the nearest I can get to it and then hope someone might recognise.
Edinburgh Evening News - Friday 22 January 1932
LOCHABER TUNNEL EXPLOSION
WORKMAN KILLED ; 4 OTHERS BADLY HURT
Another fatal blasting accident occurred yesterday the Lochaber hydro-eleetric scheme, resulting in the death of one man and serious injury to four others. The scene was the new tunnel being driven through mountain spur for the purpose the waters Loch Laggan into Loch Treig, where on Christmas Day fatal explosion under almost similar circumstances occurred.
It appears that a squad of men were engaged in drilling operations when, without the slightest warning, a violent explosion took place. Although the immediate cause of the accident has not yet been determined, it believed that one ot the drills had come into contact with a live cartridge. When the dust had cleared it was ascertained that one man had been killed and four others more or less seriously injured. The man killed is
James Gallagher (25),spanncrman, Gartaar, Arranmore, Co. Donegal.
The following sustained head injuries: Edward Coyle (26), driller, Kilmacreen, Letterkenny; Andrew O'Donel (34), driller, 12 Douglas Street, Anderston, Glasgow; and Patrick M'Kale (23), mucker, Gallowgate, Glasgow. John Smith (32), spannerman, Culsyth, Randalstown, was injured on the legs.
Medical aid was immediately available and everything done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured, who rushed by ambulance the contractors' hospital at Fersit.
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BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, ClwtyBont, Brynrefail, TalySarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera