Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	20th November 1828
Colliery:	Washington, I Pit
Cause:	Explosion
Lives Lost:	14

A dreadful explosion took place in the Eye Pit, at Washington colliery, upon the river Wear. There were fifteen persons (eleven boys and four men) in the pit when it occurred, all of whom were killed, excepting a man named Michael Hall, the onsetter, who was much burnt. The report was awfully loud, and the blast so powerful, that the machinery at the mouth of the pit was blown down and scattered about to some distance, with corves and other weighty bodies from the bottom of the shaft. The colliery had been examined in the morning, and was considered to be in a state of perfect ventilation.

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.

	Carter, Thomas, aged 7
	Cox, Thomas, aged 55
	Davison, Joseph, aged 16
	Dawson, George, aged 16
	Elliott, Edward, aged 16
	Falmer, Stephen, aged 63
	Galmey, Henry, aged 9
	Gaviston, James, aged 17
	Gaviston, John, aged 15
	Gray, John, aged 16
	Hall, Charles, aged 16
	Hall, Peter, aged 11
	Hutchinson, Henry, aged 8
	13 of 14 names found
	Youngest: 7 years old ; Oldest: 63 ; Average: 20
	Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre and are marked with , further details may be obtained by contacting Ian by email at ian.winstanley@blueyonder.co.uk

 

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