Abraham Dixon
| Age: | 25 |
| Died: | 8th Oct 1855 |
| Accident: | 8th Oct 1855 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1830 |
| Colliery: | Walker Iron Works |
| Company: | Messrs. Losh, Wilson and Bell |
| Occupation: | |
| Notes: | boiler explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A terrible boiler explosion took place at Walker Iron Works, near Newcastle, the property of Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell, by which five men and two boys were killed, and several others injured. The body of the boiler, at the time it burst, unfurled like a sail, was blown upwards, carrying with it two roofings of the sheds, and blowing down two furnaces, with their chimneys, and scattering the molten metal and red hot bricks around, while one end of it was hurled into the midst of the works, and the other about 200 yards over the hill top, into the lumber-yard. The following is a list of the sufferers :— John James, Patrick Donnoley, Joshua Jenkins, Abraham Dixon, Martin Broderick, Thomas Griffith, and John Porter.
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Memorial: 1855 Walker Rolling Mills Colliery Disaster
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| 20 Oct 1855 | The Late Boiler Explosion At Walker Iron Works, Adjourned Inquest (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 03 Nov 1855 | The Walker Inquest (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 17 Nov 1855 | The Late Boiler Explosion At Walker, Close Of The Inquest (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
- Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867
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