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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  6th May 1897
Colliery:  East Hetton
Cause:  Inundation of water from old workings
Lives Lost:  10

Description

The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.


Fatalities

 

Garside, John, aged 51, Stoneman, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery, Buried: St. Helen's Parish Church/Cemetery, Kelloe

  

Gibbon, Anthony, aged 41, Shifter, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Hall, William, aged 50, Shifter, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

 

Hutchinson, Thomas, aged 49, Stoneman, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery, Buried: Quarrington Churchyard

  

Oliver, James, aged 42, Wasteman, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Pearson, Edward, aged 50, Wasteman, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Raine, John, aged 63, Wasteman, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Robinson, Matthew, aged 26, Shifter, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Roney, Thomas, aged 58, Shifter, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

  

Smith, Edward, aged 26, Shifter, Inundation of water in Cassop way of Harvey seam, owing to workings holing into old workings from Cassop colliery

 
All names found
 
Youngest: 26 years old ; Oldest: 63 ; Average: 46
 

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.


Newspaper Articles

07 May 1897  Colliery Disaster (The Times)
13 May 1897  The Flooded Colliery (The Times)
15 May 1897  The Flooded Colliery (The Times)

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 The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the UK Disaster Reports section of this website.

 

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