Ralph Dawson
| Age: | 31 |
| Died: | 15th Aug 1848 |
| Accident: | 15th Aug 1848 12:30 PM |
| Year Born: | abt. 1817 |
| Colliery: | Murton, Polka Pit |
| Company: | |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | wife and four children ; killed in the 1848 explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
| Category: | |
An explosion took place in the West Pit, Murton Colliery, near South Hetton, the property of Messrs. Braddyll and Co., when sixteen men and boys were killed, and several others much hurt. Upwards of one hundred persons were in the mine at the time, and but for the presence of mind of one of the workmen, who was able to lead the others to a shaft, the whole would have been suffocated.
Pub.
Date | Article (Newspaper) |
|---|
| 18 Aug 1848 | Dreadful Colliery Explosion (Newcastle Courant) |
| 19 Aug 1848 | Dreadful Colliery Explosion, Loss of Fourteen Lives (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 26 Aug 1848 | Dreadful Colliery Explosion, Fourteen Lives Lost (Yorkshire Gazette) |
| 26 Aug 1848 | The Late Dreadful Colliery Explosion (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 29 Jun 1942 | A Former Disaster (Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette) |
- Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867
- Sunderland Herald
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