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Date:  26th September 1876
Colliery:  Wheatley Hill
Cause:  Explosion
Lives Lost:  4

Description

Killed by an explosion of gas in the barrier way in main coal seam. Quinn holed his bord into an old drift from the Greenhill goaf, which was full of gas, and on the rise side of a 33 feet fault, naked lights being used at the time.


Fatalities

Photograph(s) of the memorial for this disaster are shown in the Memorials section

 

Abram, William Edward Johns, aged 16, Putter, explosion

 

Ayack, James Kelly, aged 24, Collier, explosion

 

Dobinson, George Dixon, aged 34, Back Overman, explosion

 

Quinn, Thomas, aged 22, Collier, explosion

 
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