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| Date: | 21st July 1817 |
| Colliery: | Sheriff Hill |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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At night, a partial explosion took place in Sheriff-hill colliery, by which John Tempest, one of the hewers was so dreadfully burnt that he died the following day.
| Source: | Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844. |
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Tempest, John, Hewer, explosion | |
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