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William T. Candlish
| Age: | 43 |
| Died: | 24th Jan 1871 |
| Accident: | 24th Jan 1871 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1828 |
| Colliery: | Seaham, No. 1 Pit |
| Company: | Earl Vane |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | influx of water caused by unexpectedly holing into workings known to contain water |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Irruptions of Water.
No. 6 accident. This resulted in the deaths of two persons. A panel of coal was being worked towards a rise trouble of 12 feet, on the top side of which were workings known to contain water. The hitch or trouble had been proved on the rise side by sinking a staple down to the seam below, and this staple had not been marked on the plan. It was not intended to make any communication between the workings on the low side of the trouble and those on the high side, and therefore as there would be at least four feet of strata between the top of the seam at one side and the bottom at the other, it was thought unnecessary to bore holes in advance of the workings, apparently forgetting altogether about the existence of the trial staple. One of the low side or new working places holed into this staple, and let the water off with the result as above stated.
It is quite probable the man and boy who were drowned would have escaped, but in the general rush of the other workmen some one had taken the man's lamp and left them in the dark. The quantity of water set at liberty was comparatively small.
In the first place the staple should have been shown on the plan ; and, as the same officers were in charge of the pit as when the staple was sunk, and ought therefore to have remembered its existence, bore-holes should have been driven in all the approaching places contiguous thereto.
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| Pub. Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 28 Jan 1871 | Home News (The Graphic) |
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- 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 27 Where to find this report
- 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 30, Accident Number: 6 Where to find this report
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