Sandy Callin was a victim of the Snaefell Mine Disaster.
Sandy Callin, age 24, was a wagoner, married with one young child and lived at North Baldrine, Laxey.
He was found lying on platform; killed in the 1897 underground fire (caused by naked light igniting timber)
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine earned its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worst mining disaster.
An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.
Sandy Callin, age 24, was a wagoner, married with one young child and lived at North Baldrine, Laxey.
He was found lying on platform; killed in the 1897 underground fire (caused by naked light igniting timber)
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine earned its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worst mining disaster.
An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.
Sandy Callin was a victim of the Snaefell Mine Disaster.
Sandy Callin, age 24, was a wagoner, married with one young child and lived at North Baldrine, Laxey.
He was found lying on platform; killed in the 1897 underground fire (caused by naked light igniting timber)
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine earned its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worst mining disaster.
An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.
Sandy Callin, age 24, was a wagoner, married with one young child and lived at North Baldrine, Laxey.
He was found lying on platform; killed in the 1897 underground fire (caused by naked light igniting timber)
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine earned its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worst mining disaster.
An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.
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In loving memory of / SANDY CALLIN / who lost his life in the / Snaefell Mines disaster May 10th 1897 / aged 24 years / Sleep on beloved sleep on take thy rest.
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