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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  24th April 1889
Colliery:  Brancepeth
Cause:  Explosion
Lives Lost:  3

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Brown, John Adamson, aged 21, Screenman, killed by an explosion of coal dust while engaged cleaning out a large coal bunker, they had four large oil torch lamps with them, and as soon as they commenced to disturb the large accumulation of fine dust the explosion took place, Buried: St. Stephen's Churchyard/Willington Cemetery

  

Friend, William, aged 18, Screenman, killed by an explosion of coal dust while engaged cleaning out a large coal bunker, they had four large oil torch lamps with them, and as soon as they commenced to disturb the large accumulation of fine dust the explosion took place

 

Mills, George, aged 59, Bank Inspector, killed by an explosion of coal dust while engaged cleaning out a large coal bunker, they had four large oil torch lamps with them, and as soon as they commenced to disturb the large accumulation of fine dust the explosion took place, Buried: St. Stephen's Churchyard/Willington Cemetery

 
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