Robert King
| Age: | 18 |
| Died: | 31st Oct 1866 |
| Accident: | 31st Oct 1866 5:30 AM |
| Year Born: | abt. 1848 |
| Colliery: | Pelton |
| Company: | |
| Occupation: | Putter |
| Notes: | single, residence: Pit Houses ; killed in the 1866 explosion (ignition caused by safety lamp) |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Early this morning one of the most calamitous colliery explosions which has occurred in this district for many years took place at Old Pelton, in the county of Durham. The melancholy catastrophe occurred about six o'clock, when a great many of the men and boys were at work. The report of the explosion was heard in a radius of upwards of two miles, which awakened, with fearful forebodings, the villagers, who intuitively rushed to the scene. Mr. James Ritson, the deputy viewer, and other endeavoured to descend the shaft, but the foul air for some time precluded their going down. Eventually, however, they succeeded, and found the sad fact that twenty-four had paid the last great debt of nature, and several others were seriously injured.
Pub.
Date | Article (Newspaper) |
|---|
| 31 Oct 1866 | Fatal Accident In A Mine (Annual Register for 1866) |
| 02 Nov 1866 | Fatal Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 09 Nov 1866 | The Pelton Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 10 Nov 1866 | Terrible Colliery Explosion, Twenty-four lives lost (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 17 Nov 1866 | The Pelton Fell Colliery Explosion (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
- Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
- Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867
- Sunderland Herald
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