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Date:	17th September 1834
Colliery:	Hetton, Elemore Pit
Company:
Cause:	Boiler explosion
Lives Lost:	2
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Wednesday afternoon one of the very large steam boilers of the steam engine at the Elemore pit, Hetton colliery, Durham, by some unexplained circumstance or other, was shifted from its place by the force of the steam, and thrown a distance for forty yards, it burst in its flight and rolled ten yards further. One man of the name of George Bell, living at Hetton houses, was killed upon the spot. Peter Thornton, Four Lane Ends, and William Smith, Easington Lane, were very severely scalded. Another man named John Potts, was thrown a very great distance against a dung hill, and with such force that he was completely engulphed in it, and could not be disentangled without being dug round, to loosed the ashes with which he was surrounded. He was dreadfully injured. Verdict on Bell — "Accidental death."

Source:

Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.

	Bell, George, boiler bursting [Sunderland Herald reports: accident - 20 Sep 1834 pg 2 col 3]
	Thornton, Peter, boiler bursting [Sunderland Herald reports: accident - 20 Sep 1834 pg 2 col 3]
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