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Age:	11
Died:	31st Oct 1851
Accident:	31st Oct 1851 1:00 PM
Year Born:	abt. 1840
Colliery:	West Moor, Killingworth
Company:
Occupation:
Notes:	boy ; killed in the 1851 explosion
Buried:	[not known]
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An explosion of gas took place in West Moor Colliery, near Newcastle, by which nine of the miners were killed and six seriously burnt. One hundred and thirty persons were in the mine at the time of the accident, but the effects of the explosion were confined to a small portion of the workings. It was stated at the inquest that the mine had seventy miles of air passages.

Pub. Date	Article (Newspaper)
31 Oct 1851	Fatal Colliery Explosion, Newcastle (Annual Register for 1851)
01 Nov 1851	Colliery Explosion At Killingworth, Seven Lives Lost (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)
01 Nov 1851	Colliery Explosion (Newcastle Journal)
08 Nov 1851	Colliery Explosion At West Moor, Eight Lives Lost (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)
08 Nov 1851	Colliery Explosion At West Moor, Adjourned Inquest (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)
13 Nov 1851	The Killingworth Colliery Explosion (The Times)
15 Nov 1851	The Colliery Explosion At West Moor (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury)

• The Miners of Northumberland and Durham by Richard Fynes, first published in 1873
• Northumberland & Cumberland Mining Disasters by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2009, ISBN 1-845630-81-5

• Gateshead Observer
• Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867

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