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| Date: | 19th November 1824 |
| Colliery: | Dorothea Pit, Newbottle |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 11 |
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An explosion took place in the Dolly pit, Newbottle colliery, which proved fatal to the eight deputy overmen and wastemen who were below at the time ; and also to three of five others who afterwards descended in search of the dead bodies. A partition which divided the shaft (it being a double one) was blown from its situation and fell to the bottom.
| 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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Anderson, John | |
Armstrong, Matthew | |
Charlton, Thomas | |
Fairley, William | |
Hodgson, Edward | |
Johnson, George | |
Moody, Benjamin | |
Scott, John | |
Smith, William | |
Thornton, Henry | |
Watchman, Thomas | |
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