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Disasters - 1900-09	Disasters - 1900-09

Please note: only those accidents where 5 or more lives were lost are shown in the tables below.

Northern England
	Date			Cnty	Colliery	Cause	Lives	Sufferers
	14	Oct	1906	DUR	Wingate Grange	Explosion, firedamp, ignition probably caused by shot firing	26	Names
	26	Nov	1907	CUL	Whitehaven, William Pit	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	5	Names
	20	Feb	1908	DUR	Washington, Glebe Pit	Explosion, firedamp and coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing	14	Names
	16	Feb	1909	DUR	West Stanley	Explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, cause of ignition uncertain	168	Names
Rest of UK
	Date			Cnty	Colliery	Cause	Lives	Ref.
	29	Jun	1900	LAN	Old Boston, No. 3	Explosion of firedamp	8	Names
	17	Aug	1900	AYR	Portland, No. 5 Pit	Explosion	6	Names
	24	Oct	1900	GLA	Glenavon	Inrush of water	5	Names
	15	Feb	1901	FIF	Hill of Beath	Underground Fire	7	Names
	24	May	1901	GLA	Universal, Senghenydd	Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing	81	Names
	26	Aug	1901	FIF	Donibristle	Inrush of soft peat or moss	8	Names
	10	Sep	1901	GLA	Llanbradach, No. 2 Pit	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	8	Names
	04	Mar	1902	MON	Milfraen		5	Names
	02	Apr	1902	LAN	Garswood Hall		14	Names
	03	Jun	1902	GLA	Windsor		6	Names
	04	Jun	1902	GLA	Fochriw No. 2		8	Names
	03	Sep	1902	MON	Maclaren, No.1 Pit	Explosion, firedamp, cause of ignition uncertain	16	Names
	08	Oct	1902	MON	Tirpentwys	Shaft rope broke	8	Names
	11	Nov	1902	GLA	Deep Navigation		5	Names
	23	Feb	1904	YKS	Aldwarke Main	Shaft Accident	7	Names
	13	Aug	1904	MON	Nine Mile Point		7	Names
	20	Jan	1905	LAN	Bold		5	Names
	21	Jan	1905	GLA	Elba	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by contraband	11	Names
	10	Mar	1905	GLA	Cambrian	Explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by safety lamp	33	Names
	11	Jul	1905	GLA	National, Wattstown	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	119	Names
	16	Jul	1905	LAN	New Boston		5	Names
	28	Apr	1906	GLA	Dowlais		5	Names
	01	Jun	1906	GLA	Court Herbert		5	Names
	10	Nov	1906	GLA	Albion	Explosion, firedamp, explosion probably caused by spark from electric re-lighter	6	Names
	16	Feb	1907	CMN	Waunhir	Explosion of fire damp or coal dust	6	Names
	05	Mar	1907	CMN	Genwen	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by safety lamp	6	Names
	04	Oct	1907	LAN	Foggs	Shaft accident - cage collision due to slack guide ropes caused by breakage of suspension rod	10	Names
	10	Nov	1907	GLA	Seven Sisters	Explosion of fire damp or coal dust	5	Names
	15	Nov	1907	YKS	Barrow	Shaft accident, cage collided with girders in ascent	7	Names
	14	Dec	1907	GLA	Dinas Main, No. 3	Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing	7	Names
	04	Mar	1908	WAR	Hamstead	Underground fire, caused by lighted candle	25	Names
	09	Apr	1908	SOM	Norton Hill, Slyving Vein Incline	Explosion, coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing	10	Names
	18	Aug	1908	LAN	Maypole	Explosion, firedamp and coal dust, ignition caused by permitted explosive	76	Names
	27	Aug	1909	GLA	Naval Colliery, Ely pit		7	Names
	01	Oct	1909	GLA	Birchrock		5	Names
	29	Oct	1909	GLA	Darran	Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing	27	Names
	01	Nov	1909	GLA	Tareni, Pontardawe		5	Names
	10	Dec	1909	AYR	Caprington, No. 41	Inrush of water	10	Names

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