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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  28th October 1848
Colliery:  Cleator Moor, Whinny Hill
Cause:  Explosion of gas by naked light
Lives Lost:  31

Fatalities

  

Aiken, John, aged 17, son of Thomas

  

Aiken, Thomas, aged 39, father of John, left a wife and five children

  

Atkinson, John, aged 32, left a wife and two children

  

Barwise, John, aged 28, left a wife and two children

  

Clark, Robert, aged 13

  

Cummins, John, aged 24, left and wife and two children

  

Davidson, Alexander, aged 23, left a wife and child

  

Disley, John, aged 22, suffocated, unmarried

  

Dowie, Jame, aged 18, unmarried

  

Dryden, William, aged 23, unmarried

  

Fitzsimmons, Thomas, aged 25, burned, left a wife

  

Hall, John, aged 30, left a wife and three children

  

Harrison, James, aged 29, unmarried

  

Kelley, Patrick, aged 31, married

  

Lawson, John, aged 16, son of Richard, brother of Richard

  

Lawson, Richard, aged 46, father of Richard and John, left a wife and seven children

  

Lawson, Richard, aged 12, son of Richard, brother of John

  

Lish, W., aged 23, left and wife and two children

  

Lochery, Charles, aged 21, unmarried

  

Lochery, Daniel, aged 32, left a wife and child

  

MacDouall, John, aged 46, suffocated, left a wife and 1 child

  

Mash, Henry, aged 12, left a wife and child

  

McLoughlan, John, aged 18, unmarried

  

Milby, James, aged 26, brother of John, left a wife and two children

  

Milby, John, aged 18, brother of James, unmarried

  

Monaghan, Patrick, aged 41, burned, left a wife and 7 children

  

Savage, Dennis, aged 26, burned, left a wife and 19 child

  

Thompson, James, aged 26, left a wife and four children

  

Veitch, George, aged 47, suffocated, left a wife and 9 children

  

Ward, -, aged 13, brought out of the pit alive but died after a few hours from the severe burns about the face and mouth

  

Watson, George, aged 19

 
All names found
 
Youngest: 12 years old ; Oldest: 47 ; Average: 26
 

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web page have been kindly provided by The West Cumbria Mines Research Group and are marked with .


Newspaper Articles

02 Nov 1848  Dreadful Explosion — Thirty Persons Killed (The Times)

 

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