Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 19 January 1917

A pony driver, Joseph Lunners (14), of Bolton Road. Highgate who was employed at the Goldthorpe Colliery, has met his death in the pit.

He was working at 13 level, following another pony driver, when Driver Lloyd heard the tubs bump. He went back and found Lunners under the first tub, which was off the road, and deceased called out, “I am dying.”

He was extricated in ten minutes, and found to be dead.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 20 January 1917

A verdict of Accidental death” was returned yesterday, at Goldthorpe on Joseph Lunness (14), pony driver, of 36, Holton Road, Highgate, who was fatally injured in the Goldthorpe Colliery on Wednesday by a train of corves. This is the first fatal accident that has occurred at this colliery, which was sunk some six or seven years ago