Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain, 1700 to the Present Day |
Contents
Amidst Darkness and Confusion | 13 |
Beginnings | 34 |
Three Northern Explosions | 47 |
Copyright | |
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accident afterdamp alive bank Barnsley bereaved Blantyre blast bodies boys brattice breathing apparatus Buddle cage calamity catastrophe cause coal dust Coal Mines coalfields coalowners colliery disaster Colliery Explosion colliery's Committee danger Davy lamp dead Death Roll December descended district downcast shaft Durham entombed escape evidence fact fatalities Fatfield firedamp flame Galloway gassy Glamorgan Hartley Colliery Hartley Colliery disaster Hebburn Hester Pit ignition inquiry inrush inspection inspector inundation John killed Knockshinnoch Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery labour Lancashire later Low Main Mafeking Main seam Matthias Dunn mine's miners mining disasters Monmouthshire naked lights Newcastle Northumberland Oaks explosion occurred October official overman owners peat pit bottom pitmen pumping Redmayne rescue rescuers roof falls rope Royal Commission safety lamps Senghenydd September smoke South Shields South Wales sparks surface survivors tion Underground fire Universal Colliery upcast ventilation victims viewer volunteers Wallsend waste Whitehaven William Yard seam Yorkshire