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Date:  14th September 1809
Colliery:  Killingworth
Cause:  Explosion
Lives Lost:  12

Description

Killingworth. Explosion with loss of twelve lives. This explosion did not reach the shaft, and the men were killed principally by the afterdamp.

Source: Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade by Robert L. Galloway. Published in 1898.

Fatalities

  

Burrel, John, aged 39

  

Cock, James, aged 18

  

Davison, James, aged 23

  

Gildroy, George, aged 27

  

Gildroy, John, aged 42

  

Hall, Robert, aged 34

  

Mason, John, aged 50

  

Scott, William, aged 31

  

Stewart, Moses, aged 32

  

Wheeler, Robert, aged 18

 
10 of 12 names found
 
Youngest: 18 years old ; Oldest: 50 ; Average: 31

 

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