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John Jones
| Age: | 52 |
| Died: | 2nd Sep 1883 |
| Accident: | 2nd Sep 1883 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1831 |
| Colliery: | Shelton, Deep Pit |
| Company: | Lord Granville |
| Occupation: | Underlooker |
| Notes: | Explosion of gas ; leaves a widow and eight children, five of them dependent |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Explosions of Fire-damp.
In the year 1882 there was but one fatal explosion, and during the year 1883 there have been two. The first occurred on Sunday, the 2nd September, at Earl Granville's deep pit of the Shelton Colliery, at the same place and under precisely similar circumstances as the one which occurred there in November 1881. After the former explosion I constantly brought it before the manager that what had occurred before would certainly occur again, unless an entire change were made in the mode of ventilating the mine, as no colliery, working seams of such a fiery nature could possibly go on very long with the return air passing over the furnace without an explosion occurring. The reply always made to me was that they were erecting a fan on the surface, but that the upcast shafts were in such a dilapidated state that it was necessary to repair them previous to the fan being worked, and that this took longer than they expected. To every warning that I gave to the manager I was assured that every exertion was being made to bring the fan into use. I had no means of contradicting this, but I did not believe that everything was being done that could have been done, as the work could surely have been done in less than two years. Whatever opinion I expressed as to the explosion in 1881 applies more forcibly to that of 1883, as the fatal consequences of the earlier one ought to have acted as a substantial warning that, as the furnace caused one explosion, it was almost certain that it would cause another. The only redeeming circumstance about this last case was that at the moment the explosion occurred the poor fellows who lost their lives were in the act of opening the air road direct into the shaft, with a view to apply the fan on the following morning so as to abandon the furnace.
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 06 Sep 1883 | Fatal Colliery Explosion (Flintshire Observer) |
| 08 Sep 1883 | Colliery Explosion At Hanley, One Man Killed And Five Injured (The Cardiff Times) |
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- 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), North Staffordshire District by Thomas Wynne, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 30 Where to find this report
- 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), North Staffordshire District by Thomas Wynne, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 33, Accident Number: 22 Where to find this report
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| Libby Jones | 09 Nov 2023 |
The daughter of John Jones - Annie Jones married into my family in 1890. She died a traumatic death and I wondered what might have caused the trauma. I found her father John Jones died in a very traumatic way. I would love to hear from any descendants of this family and find out more about how the famiy managed after the death of John Jones. His wife's father also died at a mine accident at Flintshire. |
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