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Date:  6th May 1852
Colliery:  Hebburn
Cause:  Explosion of firedamp, caused by naked light
Lives Lost:  22

Description

A fearful explosion of gas took place in Hebburn Colliery, near Newcastle, the property of Messrs. Easton and Co. Two hundred workmen were in the mine when the calamity occurred, but the effects were confined to the Monkton Flat, in which twenty men and two boys were working, all of whom were suffocated. Fourteen of the sufferers left widows and families, and, as proof of the uncertainty of life amongst miners, one of the women lost two husbands in the same awful manner.

Source: Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, Published in 1867

See also: N1852-03, and N1852-05


Fatalities

  

Barnfather, John, aged 19, single

  

Batey, George, aged 30, left a wife and 3 children

  

Brooksbank, Allan, aged 26, married a widow 3 months ago, with 3 children. She has been 4 times married and has lost 3 of her husbands to explosions

  

Coal, James, aged 36

  

Deans, William, aged 37, left a wife and 3 children

  

English, James, aged 12

  

Gascoigne, John, aged 31, single

  

Greenwell, John, aged 39, left a wife and 3 children

  

Hall, George, aged 27, left a wife and 3 children

  

Johnson, Edward, aged 18, single

  

Orr, Joseph, aged 35, left a wife and 3 children

  

Parson, James, aged 22, left a wife and 1 child

  

Pattison, George, aged 22, single

  

Peel, John, aged 66, left a wife

  

Phillips, Silas, aged 23, Deputy, left a wife and 2 children

  

Piggsford, John, aged 25, single

  

Richardson, Thomas, aged 26, left a wife and 2 children

  

Scott, William, aged 27, left a wife and 3 children

  

Smith, John, aged 33, left a wife and 4 children

  

Wardle, Michael, aged 10

  

Wardle, Samuel, aged 18, single

  

Wear, William, aged 32, left a wife and 4 children

 
All names found
 
Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 66 ; Average: 28

 

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