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Miner crushed in pit horror

Saturday 16 July 1994 23:02 BST
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A MINER was crushed to death by machinery 1,200 ft below the surface of Wistow Colliery at Selby, North Yorkshire. Colleagues struggled in vain for an hour to free Terence Rowley, 43.

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