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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  10th May 1897
Colliery:  Snaefell
Cause:  Underground fire, caused by naked light igniting timber
Lives Lost:  20

Fatalities

  

Callan, Sandy, aged 24, Waggoner, found lying on platform

  

Callow, William, aged 29, Miner, found lying on platform

  

Cannell, Robert, aged 41, Waggoner, found in a sitting position near "hanging wall"

  

Christian, Frank, aged 30, Waggoner, found lying on platform

  

Christian, Walter, aged 21, Labourer, found lying on platform

  

Christian, William, aged 26, Labourer, found lying on platform, he had fallen off the ladder

  

Corkhill, James Henry, aged 44, Miner, rescued alive

  

Fayle, John, aged 40, Waggoner, found lying on platform

  

Kelly, Robert, aged 20, Labourer, found lying in the level, body recovered on the 7th June

  

Kewin, John Robert, aged 28, Labourer, found sitting on the platform with his legs through the manhole

  

Kewin, William, aged 24, Labourer, found lying on platform

  

Kewley, Edward, aged 22, Labourer, found lying on platform

  

Kewley, John, aged 32, Kibble-filler, found lying on platform

  

Kinrade, Edward, aged 27, Labourer, found lying on platform

  

Kinrade, Louis, aged 24, Miner, found lying on platform close to "hanging wall"

  

Lewney, Robert, aged 24, Labourer, found lying on platform, he had fallen off ladder and bled a good deal

  

Moughtin, Joseph, aged 28, Miner, found lying on platform, he had fallen off the ladder

  

Oliver, John, aged 57, Miner, found in the manhole with his arm over one of the rungs of the ladder

  

Oliver, John James, aged 22, Labourer, found in manhole with one foot on the ladder and the other on the platform

  

Senogles, William, aged 46, Miner, found clinging to the ladder, with one foot on a rung, and the other on the platform

 
All names found
 
Youngest: 20 years old ; Oldest: 57 ; Average: 30

Newspaper Articles

11 May 1897  Disaster In A Mine (The Times)
12 May 1897  The Snaefell Mining Disaster (The Times)
13 May 1897  The Snaefell Mining Disaster (The Times)
14 May 1897  The Snaefell Mine Disaster (The Times)
17 May 1897  Extraordinary Adventure At The Snaefell Mine (The Times)
18 May 1897  The Snaefell Mining Disaster (The Times)
31 May 1897  The Snaefell Mine Disaster (The Times)
16 Jun 1897  The Snaefell Mining Disaster (The Times)
18 Sep 1897  The Snaefell Mining Disaster (The Times)
30 May 1898  The Fire At The Snaefell Lead Mine (The Times)

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