Thanks to Mary we now have the following newspaper article from the Liverpool Echo
dated 14th January 1928.
CRUSHED BY WAGONS
The second inquest was on Charles Samuel Rowles, age fifty-two, a labourer,
living with his family at 21, Wood Street, Widnes, who was killed on Friday morning by being crushed between wagons at the Sutton Manor Colliery, St. Helens.
Charles Rowles. son, said his father served in the Army in India as a young man, and also served during the whole of the late war. After leaving the Army he was employed at Bell’s Asbestos Works, Farnworth, but had been employed since the strike at the Sutton Manor Colliery as a wagon lowerer on the surface.
William Sumner, of 86 Lowe Street, St.Helens, said that on Friday morning he lowered a wagon of coal into the sidings away from the pit head, when he saw a full wagon just rebounding off two stationary wagons full of slack. As the buffers drew apart he saw the body of a man fall along the near side rails. He rushed the body out of the way before the wagons closed up again.
William Edward Robinson, another wagon labourer, said he filled three wagons, and being satisfied that no one was on the rails, he let the wagon go. They had to run a short distance and then buffer up against the stationary wagons.
The jury agreed with a suggestion that it would have been better to have let the wagons down under the control of the brakes, and returned a verdict of “Death from Misadventure”.
So we now know that when he died he was living at 21 Wood Street, Widnes.
So where is the most likely place of burial.