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William Kelly
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| Died: | 20th Sep 1803 |
| Accident: | 20th Sep 1803 |
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| Colliery: | Wallsend, C Pit |
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| Notes: | killed in the 1803 explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Wallsend C pit. Explosion (termed “a heavy fire“) by which thirteen men and boys were killed, and nearly twenty burnt and injured. A burst of gas (or “bag of foulness“), which came from the roof in the pillars behind the workmen, fired at a lamp in the leading excavation (the going headways). The bords were just turned away out of this place, “and the fire from the explosion sweeping along it,” to quote Mr. Buddle's words, “struck all the people who were working in its range. The workings were very dry and dusty, and the survivors, who were the most distant from the point of explosion, were burnt by the shower of red-hot sparks of the ignited dust, which were driven along by the force of the explosion. The greater number of the sufferers perished by suffocation”.
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- Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade by Robert L. Galloway. Published in 1898.
- Parish Records
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