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Francis D. Straughan
| Age: | 39 |
| Died: | 2nd Dec 1886 |
| Accident: | 2nd Dec 1886 2:50 AM |
| Year Born: | abt. 1847 |
| Colliery: | Elemore |
| Company: | Hetton Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Occupation: | Stoneman |
| Notes: | killed in the 1886 explosion (ignition caused by shot firing) |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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Perhaps one of the most extraordinary coal-dust explosions was that which occurred at the Elemore Colliery in Durham, in December, 1886. The evidence shows intake that the explosion originated in a main haulage road within 200 yards of the downcast shaft. It was an old colliery; the road had been made for many years, and there was a current of 37,000 cubic feet a minute of fresh air passing the place where it is said the explosion originated. On the night of the explosion some miners were at work enlarging the road at the place marked + on the plan (Fig. 339) and also on the section (Fig. 340). Several shots were fired by one shift of men, who were relieved by a second shift, who fired another shot, after which the mine exploded. The evidence seems to show that it was impossible for the explosion to have originated in any other part of the mine. The flame was seen to rush into the downcast shaft, and go down the shaft and enter a seam of coal on a lower level and pass along the intake haulage road, and go still further down the shaft and enter another seam on a still lower level. Everywhere the flame traversed intake haulage roads for a total length of 3500 yards. There was no explosion in the return air-roads; there was no explosion in the working places. The intake haulage roads were dry and dusty, and it is inconceivable that there could have been fire-damp in these intake roads and no fire-damp in the working places and returns. The conclusion is irresistible that this was an explosion of coal-dust.
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Memorial: 1886 Elemore Colliery Disaster
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Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 03 Dec 1886 | Fatal Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 04 Dec 1886 | The Fatal Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 06 Dec 1886 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 07 Dec 1886 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 21 Dec 1886 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 22 Dec 1886 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 23 Dec 1886 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
| 16 Jun 1887 | The Elemore Colliery Explosion (The Times) |
- Headstone(s) and Memorial in St. Michael and All Angels Churchyard, Hetton Lyons
- Memorial in St. Michael and All Angels Churchyard, Hetton Lyons
- Memorial photograph (T-00292-00-0002) © Kev Duncan
- Mining - an elementary treatise on the getting of minerals by Arnold Lupton, M.I.C.E., F.G.S., published in 1893
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