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Non-fatal Accident

Eli Barker

Accident:   20th Dec 1851
Age:  
Year Born:  
Colliery:   Warren Vale
Company:   Messrs. Charlesworth
Occupation:  
Notes:  
Explosion of firedamp ; Seriously injured ; Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light

Related Newspaper Articles

Pub.
Date
Article (Newspaper)
20 Dec 1851 Dreadful Colliery Explosion At Rawmarsh, Fifty-two Lives Lost (Annual Register for 1851)
26 Dec 1851 Colliery Explosion At Rawmarsh, Fifty Persons Killed (The Monmouthshire Merlin)
26 Dec 1851 Awful Colliery Explosion, Fifty Lives Lost (The Welshman)
03 Jan 1852 The Rawmarsh Colliery Explosion (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)
17 Jan 1852 The Rawmarsh Colliery Explosion (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)

Sources
  • 1851 (Jul-Dec) Mines Inspectors Report, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines, published in 1854

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