Historical
This article first appeared in the Cumnock Chronicle Friday October 11 2002
THE bond between tragedy and coal-mining runs deeper than the black seams buried beneath the land.
THURSDAY September 7 was the anniversary of the tragedy the world called the Knockshinnoch Disaster. The Late BILL AITKEN, then Chronicle Chief Reporter, was on the scene at Knockshinnoch a few short hours after that fatal inrush of peat engulfed the pit bottom in 1950. Years later, he wrote an emotional account of the days and nights that still haunt New Cumnock.
IN Keir Hardie country, it is said, placing a red rosette on a donkey would be enough to ensure election.
FIVE men were killed and 20 were injured as they headed home from their shift at New Cumnock’s Bank No 6 mine on April 13, 1938.
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