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| Date: | 20th July 1827 |
| Colliery: | Lumley, Charles Pit |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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About four o’clock on the morning, nine men were burnt by the fire-damp in the Charles pit, Lumley colliery ; some of them severely. The accident was caused by a young man named Foster, going to a wrong part of the pit with his candle. There were upwards of 200 men and boys in the pit at the time. August 3rd, Robert Oughton, one of the sufferers, died in consequence.
| 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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Oughton, Robert, explosion of fire-damp, died from burns | |
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