That gas mixed with air may be exploded by a securely locked Davy lamp was. There was high feeling in the area over the verdict and despite the lack of a criminal prosecution; there was by implication some culpable negligence on the part of the colliery owners.

By midnight twelve bodies had been recovered, all shockingly burnt, making identification difficult. Maypole and Hulton Colliery / Pretoria pit disasters . var url = document.URL;

The Yard seam was reached by two shafts 18 feet in diameter at a depth of 520 yards. Accidental death verdicts were recorded on all 76 victims. The scientific evidence, was presented by Mr. Higson, a mining engineer totally unconnected with the colliery. News. At the second sitting of the inquiry the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Relief Society complained that the law of the land meant that they had infringed it by paying all the funeral money once the bodies had been identified and not waiting for a certificate of the cause of death from the registrar as was stipulated in the Friendly Societies Act. When one shift ended, a small army of shot firers entered the pit to bring down more coal for the next pitmen to shovel.

Posted by John F. Ptak in Cross-Sections | Permalink, Tags: Assuming this theory to be the correct one, it follows that, to prevent the recurrence of a like disaster, the ventilation must be reduced or a more perfect lamp adopted. The Coroner heard many stories that the explosion had been caused by gas, but mine officials argued that Wigan pits were free of gas. The jury found that there was “great laxity of discipline in the relighting and relocking of lamps,” and recommended that the key should only be accessible through the fireman or some duly appointed person.

The whole workforce of the Abram Colliery were members of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Permanent Relief Society and in addition the employers, had a scheme according to the Employers Liability Act.
She little knew that it was the last time she would see her father alive. (Victoria Cross), Letter from King George VI to school children, Workers Select Hand Picked Cannel Coal, Wigan, circa 1890. Full details can be found in the catalogue – search for …

It was officially stated that 75 men were down the pit at the time of the explosion, three were rescued alive, William DORAN, SMITH and DRAPER, thus there were 72 men in the mine immediately after the catastrophe.”, “Men, Women and children in a seething mass waited in sorrow at the pit mouth for those, who but, an hour before had left their homes. Mining agent Oswald Onions said he had examined the shaft only the day before and nothing appeared to be wrong. An inquest held in October 1979 returned verdicts of death by misadventure on the victims. The work of cleaning up the rubble continued all that week until the last body was discovered on Sunday 31st December. Arrangements were being made to transport the injured, some of whom had burns on 90% of their bodies, from local hospitals to the burns unit at Withington hospital in Manchester. It aroused considerable attention. They heard the blast and within minutes, hundreds were rushing along Park Lane to the colliery yard. The family of Thomas Fletcher was especially fortunate. Mr. Westhead saw no gas during the continuance of the weighting, but as the air was going past him into the wideworks, it is obvious that any gas given off in consequence of the weighting would be carried away from him. He said: "It is the most terrible tragedy, "I have come to express sympathy with the families. He forthrightly denounced the collusion between the owners and managers, the lawyers and Government Inspectors in glossing over the facts of the case, and burying the negligence of the owners in a morass of legal jargon. On the pit bank at Douglas Bank Colliery, Wigan, c1890. Engine can be seen, beneath this were 13 loaded wagons of coal. Aspinall and Claire had picked up a lamp before the explosion belonging to Cronshaw who was killed. The deaths altered lives for hundreds of Wigan people and some of the first detailed reports were carried in the Wigan Observer just four days after Hell happened in No 1 Pit at the Maypole.

A total of 15 tons of debris had to be wound out of the dib hole and during the last stages the head of a man was found in the falls of dirt. ABRAM.

By 2 April all but one of the injured men had died.

The mine was worked with locked lamps with the exception of the bottom of the downcast shaft where there were a few gas lights in the main intake. Mr Rawsthorne told the inquest he was catapulted backwards by the force of the explosion.

1967: Supertanker Torrey Canyon hits rocks. After a lengthy two and a half hours of deliberation the jury brought in the following verdict: We are of the opinion that a sudden outburst of gas took place in the westerly wideworks and was ignited between the entrances of the top cut through of the westerly upbrow and the pace where Baines and Armstrong were working viz., in the most easterly of the westerly upbrows, but how ignited we have not sufficient evidence to show. Once the cage had been repaired Mr. Taylor and two men descended at 3 p.m. to find that the mouth of the Yard Mine had been smashed and further descent was impossible. The following day the incident claimed Patrick Grainey, 40. The rescuers discovered two or three injured men near the mouthing but to their great relief the rest of the men in the Arley were safe. Apart from the lack of light when the explosion had blown most of the lamps out and some concussion from being thrown against the sides, most of the men were non the worse for the experience. Another 100 men working at the pit at the time of the explosion, which occurred at about 1130 hours today, were taken to safety.

We would recommend that the key be accessible only through the fireman or some duly appointed person, and also think Mr. Taylor, the certificated manager, gave his evidence most unsatisfactorily. There were two seams worked at the colliery, the Yard Seam and the Lower Arley Seam.

PAT CARROL, WiganJ MORAN, WiganM GALLAGHER, ScholesT GROARK, ScholesM CAFFERTY, ScholesE CAFFERTY, ScholesT DONLAN, GolborneJ FLANNERY, LeighF McGUCKIEN, WiganW McCABE, no addressJ GROGHEGAN, WiganJ CONWAY, WiganG ALLEN, Platt BridgeM BANKS, WiganT HARRISON, AbramALFRED MONKS, AbramJ TAYLOR, AbramF McMALLOY, ScholesP MULLIGAN, ScholesJ BENNETT, ScholesP McGOWAN, WiganP CULLEN, WiganH KILLORAN, AbramT KILLORAN, AbramP SLOGAN, ScholesJ BURNE, Platt BridgeJ McGRATH, ScholesP CULLEN, AbramJ DOYLE, AbramM McBOYLE, ScholesP FISHWICK, AbramS EVANS, GolborneJ PENNINGTON, no addressR WILDING, no addressH PIMBLETT, Dover, near WiganJ WALKDEN, HindleyJ DAVIES, AbramJOHN HANNAN, Plank LaneH TAYLOR, AbramLEVI RUSHTON, AbramW MONKS, AbramT GASKELL, AbramP SIMM, Platt BridgeJ HODGSON, no addressH NELSON, Platt BridgeJ DONELLY, GolborneT MURPHY, Platt BridgeJ CASSIDY, GolborneA DEVANEY, Platt BridgeJ WALSH, Platt BridgeJ McDONALD, Lower InceT McELLEN, GolborneP CHARNOCK, AbramP DUFFEY, WiganA HENDERSON, GolborneM HOUSE, ScholesA HUGHES, GolborneO ROBINSON, AbramP CAULFIELD, Platt BridgeJ ROBINSON, AbramR McDONOUGH, no addressE FRANCE, InceA DRAPER, Platt BridgeT LLOYD, Platt BridgeJ DAWSON, HindleyG HOLCROFT, LeighJ HOLCROFT, LeighR PIMBLETT, AbramT CROSS, Platt BridgeTOM JENNINGS, Golborne. It was five o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, 1908 when an explosion ripped the heart out of the Cannel Mine (No 1 Pit) at Abram's Maypole Colliery.

I quite concur with the jury as to the unsatisfactory character of the regulations at the colliery in question with regard to the lamps generally, and especially in question to the relighting of lamps which have been accidentally extinguished. The Right Hon.

It further appears to me to be wrong that the manager (Special Rule 1), the under officials (Special Rules 6), and the miners (Special Rule 25) should be told that it is their duty to comply with the “Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872,” only so far as this is, “reasonably practicable”. This will probably have been the largest version of a heavy duty paddle type centrifugal mining ventilation fan. Wigan Collieries and Engineering (at the end of the Nineteenth Century) The following notes have been compiled in an attempt to set down in one place information which has been drawn from a variety of sources on collieries of the Wigan Coalfield and the closely associated engineering works. The great majority of the colliers examined at the inquest were illiterate, and it appears that no steps whatever are taken to bring the Rules to their notice. John Ward ran along the side of the engine screaming at Ludovic to jump clear. Week after week, edition after edition, the pages are full of the tragedy and its many offshoots, including the setting up of the Fund to help the widows and orphans.

Relatives of deceased single men: Funeral grant of £20.

A most tragic case was that of the death of the underlooker, Mr. R.J. Cronshaw, son of the Vicar of St Thomas’s, Wigan.,and he was a most promising young man. The dead were named as John McKenna, 37, from Bryn near Wigan, Colin Dallimore, 29, from Wigan and Joe Berry, 41, from Leigh. But all too soon, the reporters went off to other stories and the people of Abram and Wigan were left in their grief. They are posted up at the pithead in accordance with the Act of Parliament, but are not otherwise published. Little mining communities live with the fear of a great tragedy. Many joined the rescue efforts. Wigan, Lancashire. It was these questions that they hoped would be answered at the inquest into the explosion. It is very probable that, had there been less ventilation in this colliery; the explosion would never have taken place. Choppington War Memorial Hall & Institute, Bedlington Man's Memories of Prison Camp Horrors, Tyne Bridge Construction & Opening Postcards, Some Speculation on Bedlingtons Ancient History, Authorising Letter from John Amos 20th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 19th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 26th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 15th July 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 20th July 1913, Sport in the mining communities 1800 - 1914, Ashington soldiers letters from the front line, Barrington soldiers letters from the front line. February 25th 1882. A Wigan miner kneeling down in a wash day alley, 1891. The victims in this case were all carrying methane-detecting equipment. Golborne colliery has one of the best safety records in the industry. One hundred and fifty feet below an empty field between Abram and Platt Bridge lies a monument to the victim of Wigan's strangest mining disaster. The workings in the seam were not very extensive and had been reached about three years before the disaster. In the days following the tragedy, the Mayor of Wigan launched an appeal fund for the dependents of the miners who died. His brother, Peter Grainey, 41, died the day after that. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Taken from the 'Window on Wigan' book with kind permission of the author Geoffrey Shryhane, who also writes Wigan World for the Wigan Observer. By 5 p.m. the cage had been repaired and the descent into the Arley Mine was possible.
Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department One family lost a father and two brothers, the youngest aged 16 years had started work in the mine that day. A total of £30,000 was raised. The twisted wreckage and the body of the driver remained as they were and the shaft was covered over, sealing forever one of the greatest mysteries in local mining history.

In the days following the tragedy, the Mayor of Wigan launched an appeal fund for the dependents of the miners who died.
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He had always had to show it to West or Morgan before he went back to work.

The cause of the explosion was far from clear.

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The enormity of the explosion was realised immediately and while some people were utterly distraught, others waited in the rain, stunned and motionless.

Sisters were left without brothers.

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That gas mixed with air may be exploded by a securely locked Davy lamp was. There was high feeling in the area over the verdict and despite the lack of a criminal prosecution; there was by implication some culpable negligence on the part of the colliery owners.

By midnight twelve bodies had been recovered, all shockingly burnt, making identification difficult. Maypole and Hulton Colliery / Pretoria pit disasters . var url = document.URL;

The Yard seam was reached by two shafts 18 feet in diameter at a depth of 520 yards. Accidental death verdicts were recorded on all 76 victims. The scientific evidence, was presented by Mr. Higson, a mining engineer totally unconnected with the colliery. News. At the second sitting of the inquiry the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Relief Society complained that the law of the land meant that they had infringed it by paying all the funeral money once the bodies had been identified and not waiting for a certificate of the cause of death from the registrar as was stipulated in the Friendly Societies Act. When one shift ended, a small army of shot firers entered the pit to bring down more coal for the next pitmen to shovel.

Posted by John F. Ptak in Cross-Sections | Permalink, Tags: Assuming this theory to be the correct one, it follows that, to prevent the recurrence of a like disaster, the ventilation must be reduced or a more perfect lamp adopted. The Coroner heard many stories that the explosion had been caused by gas, but mine officials argued that Wigan pits were free of gas. The jury found that there was “great laxity of discipline in the relighting and relocking of lamps,” and recommended that the key should only be accessible through the fireman or some duly appointed person.

The whole workforce of the Abram Colliery were members of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Permanent Relief Society and in addition the employers, had a scheme according to the Employers Liability Act.
She little knew that it was the last time she would see her father alive. (Victoria Cross), Letter from King George VI to school children, Workers Select Hand Picked Cannel Coal, Wigan, circa 1890. Full details can be found in the catalogue – search for …

It was officially stated that 75 men were down the pit at the time of the explosion, three were rescued alive, William DORAN, SMITH and DRAPER, thus there were 72 men in the mine immediately after the catastrophe.”, “Men, Women and children in a seething mass waited in sorrow at the pit mouth for those, who but, an hour before had left their homes. Mining agent Oswald Onions said he had examined the shaft only the day before and nothing appeared to be wrong. An inquest held in October 1979 returned verdicts of death by misadventure on the victims. The work of cleaning up the rubble continued all that week until the last body was discovered on Sunday 31st December. Arrangements were being made to transport the injured, some of whom had burns on 90% of their bodies, from local hospitals to the burns unit at Withington hospital in Manchester. It aroused considerable attention. They heard the blast and within minutes, hundreds were rushing along Park Lane to the colliery yard. The family of Thomas Fletcher was especially fortunate. Mr. Westhead saw no gas during the continuance of the weighting, but as the air was going past him into the wideworks, it is obvious that any gas given off in consequence of the weighting would be carried away from him. He said: "It is the most terrible tragedy, "I have come to express sympathy with the families. He forthrightly denounced the collusion between the owners and managers, the lawyers and Government Inspectors in glossing over the facts of the case, and burying the negligence of the owners in a morass of legal jargon. On the pit bank at Douglas Bank Colliery, Wigan, c1890. Engine can be seen, beneath this were 13 loaded wagons of coal. Aspinall and Claire had picked up a lamp before the explosion belonging to Cronshaw who was killed. The deaths altered lives for hundreds of Wigan people and some of the first detailed reports were carried in the Wigan Observer just four days after Hell happened in No 1 Pit at the Maypole.

A total of 15 tons of debris had to be wound out of the dib hole and during the last stages the head of a man was found in the falls of dirt. ABRAM.

By 2 April all but one of the injured men had died.

The mine was worked with locked lamps with the exception of the bottom of the downcast shaft where there were a few gas lights in the main intake. Mr Rawsthorne told the inquest he was catapulted backwards by the force of the explosion.

1967: Supertanker Torrey Canyon hits rocks. After a lengthy two and a half hours of deliberation the jury brought in the following verdict: We are of the opinion that a sudden outburst of gas took place in the westerly wideworks and was ignited between the entrances of the top cut through of the westerly upbrow and the pace where Baines and Armstrong were working viz., in the most easterly of the westerly upbrows, but how ignited we have not sufficient evidence to show. Once the cage had been repaired Mr. Taylor and two men descended at 3 p.m. to find that the mouth of the Yard Mine had been smashed and further descent was impossible. The following day the incident claimed Patrick Grainey, 40. The rescuers discovered two or three injured men near the mouthing but to their great relief the rest of the men in the Arley were safe. Apart from the lack of light when the explosion had blown most of the lamps out and some concussion from being thrown against the sides, most of the men were non the worse for the experience. Another 100 men working at the pit at the time of the explosion, which occurred at about 1130 hours today, were taken to safety.

We would recommend that the key be accessible only through the fireman or some duly appointed person, and also think Mr. Taylor, the certificated manager, gave his evidence most unsatisfactorily. There were two seams worked at the colliery, the Yard Seam and the Lower Arley Seam.

PAT CARROL, WiganJ MORAN, WiganM GALLAGHER, ScholesT GROARK, ScholesM CAFFERTY, ScholesE CAFFERTY, ScholesT DONLAN, GolborneJ FLANNERY, LeighF McGUCKIEN, WiganW McCABE, no addressJ GROGHEGAN, WiganJ CONWAY, WiganG ALLEN, Platt BridgeM BANKS, WiganT HARRISON, AbramALFRED MONKS, AbramJ TAYLOR, AbramF McMALLOY, ScholesP MULLIGAN, ScholesJ BENNETT, ScholesP McGOWAN, WiganP CULLEN, WiganH KILLORAN, AbramT KILLORAN, AbramP SLOGAN, ScholesJ BURNE, Platt BridgeJ McGRATH, ScholesP CULLEN, AbramJ DOYLE, AbramM McBOYLE, ScholesP FISHWICK, AbramS EVANS, GolborneJ PENNINGTON, no addressR WILDING, no addressH PIMBLETT, Dover, near WiganJ WALKDEN, HindleyJ DAVIES, AbramJOHN HANNAN, Plank LaneH TAYLOR, AbramLEVI RUSHTON, AbramW MONKS, AbramT GASKELL, AbramP SIMM, Platt BridgeJ HODGSON, no addressH NELSON, Platt BridgeJ DONELLY, GolborneT MURPHY, Platt BridgeJ CASSIDY, GolborneA DEVANEY, Platt BridgeJ WALSH, Platt BridgeJ McDONALD, Lower InceT McELLEN, GolborneP CHARNOCK, AbramP DUFFEY, WiganA HENDERSON, GolborneM HOUSE, ScholesA HUGHES, GolborneO ROBINSON, AbramP CAULFIELD, Platt BridgeJ ROBINSON, AbramR McDONOUGH, no addressE FRANCE, InceA DRAPER, Platt BridgeT LLOYD, Platt BridgeJ DAWSON, HindleyG HOLCROFT, LeighJ HOLCROFT, LeighR PIMBLETT, AbramT CROSS, Platt BridgeTOM JENNINGS, Golborne. It was five o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, 1908 when an explosion ripped the heart out of the Cannel Mine (No 1 Pit) at Abram's Maypole Colliery.

I quite concur with the jury as to the unsatisfactory character of the regulations at the colliery in question with regard to the lamps generally, and especially in question to the relighting of lamps which have been accidentally extinguished. The Right Hon.

It further appears to me to be wrong that the manager (Special Rule 1), the under officials (Special Rules 6), and the miners (Special Rule 25) should be told that it is their duty to comply with the “Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872,” only so far as this is, “reasonably practicable”. This will probably have been the largest version of a heavy duty paddle type centrifugal mining ventilation fan. Wigan Collieries and Engineering (at the end of the Nineteenth Century) The following notes have been compiled in an attempt to set down in one place information which has been drawn from a variety of sources on collieries of the Wigan Coalfield and the closely associated engineering works. The great majority of the colliers examined at the inquest were illiterate, and it appears that no steps whatever are taken to bring the Rules to their notice. John Ward ran along the side of the engine screaming at Ludovic to jump clear. Week after week, edition after edition, the pages are full of the tragedy and its many offshoots, including the setting up of the Fund to help the widows and orphans.

Relatives of deceased single men: Funeral grant of £20.

A most tragic case was that of the death of the underlooker, Mr. R.J. Cronshaw, son of the Vicar of St Thomas’s, Wigan.,and he was a most promising young man. The dead were named as John McKenna, 37, from Bryn near Wigan, Colin Dallimore, 29, from Wigan and Joe Berry, 41, from Leigh. But all too soon, the reporters went off to other stories and the people of Abram and Wigan were left in their grief. They are posted up at the pithead in accordance with the Act of Parliament, but are not otherwise published. Little mining communities live with the fear of a great tragedy. Many joined the rescue efforts. Wigan, Lancashire. It was these questions that they hoped would be answered at the inquest into the explosion. It is very probable that, had there been less ventilation in this colliery; the explosion would never have taken place. Choppington War Memorial Hall & Institute, Bedlington Man's Memories of Prison Camp Horrors, Tyne Bridge Construction & Opening Postcards, Some Speculation on Bedlingtons Ancient History, Authorising Letter from John Amos 20th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 19th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 26th April 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 15th July 1913, Letter Written by John Amos 20th July 1913, Sport in the mining communities 1800 - 1914, Ashington soldiers letters from the front line, Barrington soldiers letters from the front line. February 25th 1882. A Wigan miner kneeling down in a wash day alley, 1891. The victims in this case were all carrying methane-detecting equipment. Golborne colliery has one of the best safety records in the industry. One hundred and fifty feet below an empty field between Abram and Platt Bridge lies a monument to the victim of Wigan's strangest mining disaster. The workings in the seam were not very extensive and had been reached about three years before the disaster. In the days following the tragedy, the Mayor of Wigan launched an appeal fund for the dependents of the miners who died. His brother, Peter Grainey, 41, died the day after that. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Taken from the 'Window on Wigan' book with kind permission of the author Geoffrey Shryhane, who also writes Wigan World for the Wigan Observer. By 5 p.m. the cage had been repaired and the descent into the Arley Mine was possible.
Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department One family lost a father and two brothers, the youngest aged 16 years had started work in the mine that day. A total of £30,000 was raised. The twisted wreckage and the body of the driver remained as they were and the shaft was covered over, sealing forever one of the greatest mysteries in local mining history.

In the days following the tragedy, the Mayor of Wigan launched an appeal fund for the dependents of the miners who died.

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