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| Date: | 20th February 1908 |
| Colliery: | Washington, Glebe Pit |
| Company: | Washington Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Explosion, firedamp and coal dust, ignition caused by shot firing |
| Lives Lost: | 14 |
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The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.
Photographs of those killed and futher individual details on the victims can be found here.
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 | Applegarth, Charles Thomas, aged 33, Buried: Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherburn |
| | Ashman, Edward, aged 41, Buried: Houghton Cemetery |
| | Chivers, Charles, aged 25, left a wife and two children, Buried: Washington Cemetery |
| | Clark, John Thomas, aged 29, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington |
| | Cowen, Robert, aged 45, Buried: Washington Cemetery |
| | Dixon, John, aged 42 |
| | Errington, Thomas Agar, aged 18, Buried: Washington Cemetery |
| | Glendenning, William Edward, aged 32, Buried: Churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherburn |
| | Madden, James Ambrose, aged 39 |
| | McNally, Thomas, aged 48 |
| | Oswald, Henry, aged 35, Buried: Washington Cemetery |
| | Rollin, William Henry, aged 30 |
| | Wake, James William, aged 42, Buried: Washington Cemetery |
| | Wood, Alfred, aged 50 |
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Youngest: 18 years old ; Oldest: 50 ; Average: 36 | |
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| Memorial: 1908 Washington Glebe Colliery Disaster | |
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| Newspaper Articles | |
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| 22 Feb 1908 | Fatal Colliery Explosion, Fourteen Lives Lost (The Times) |
| 22 Feb 1908 | Durham Disaster, Terrible Pit Explosion, 14 Victims (The Cardiff Times) |
| 24 Mar 1908 | The Washington Colliery Accident (The Times) |
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| Further Reading | |
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- Mines Inspectors Report into the 1908 Explosion (Cd 4183)
- Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
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 | The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the UK Disaster Reports section of this website. |
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