Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	20th February 1908
Colliery:	Washington, Glebe Pit
Cause:	Explosion, firedamp and coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing
Lives Lost:	14

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

Photographs of those killed and futher individual details on the victims can be found here.

Photograph(s) of the memorial for this disaster are shown in the Memorials section

	Applegarth, Charles Thomas, aged 33, Buried: Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherburn
	Ashman, Edward, aged 41, Buried: Houghton Cemetery
	Chivers, Charles, aged 25, left a wife and two children, Buried: Washington Cemetery
	Clark, John Thomas, aged 29
	Cowen, Robert, aged 45, Buried: Washington Cemetery
	Dixon, John, aged 42
	Errington, Thomas Agar, aged 18, Buried: Washington Cemetery
	Glendenning, William Edward, aged 32, Buried: Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherburn
	Madden, James Ambrose, aged 49
	McNally, Thomas, aged 48
	Oswald, Henry, aged 35
	Rollin, William Henry, aged 30
	Wake, James William, aged 42, Buried: Washington Cemetery
	Wood, Alfred, aged 50
	All names found
	Youngest: 18 years old ; Oldest: 50 ; Average: 37
	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.

22 Feb 1908	Fatal Colliery Explosion, Fourteen Lives Lost (The Times)
24 Mar 1908	The Washington Colliery Accident (The Times)

• Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Explosion (Cd 4183)

 

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