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| Date: | 24th April 1889 |
| Colliery: | Brancepeth |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 3 |
| 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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