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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  8th December 1862
Colliery:  Edmunds Main
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing and naked lights
Lives Lost:  59

 Baker, George
 Bates, Matthew
 Blacker, Peter
 Columbine, George
 Cottle, Nicholas
 Cottle, Robert
 Davy, William
 Eastwood, James
 Ellis, James
 Ellis, John, snr
 Ellis, Walter
 Ewins, James
 Farrington, Robert
 Fielding, William
 Firth, George
 Frobisher, Charles
 Galloway, George
 Gawthorpe, Thomas
 Hartley, John
 Hartley, John
 Hartley, Walter
 Hawley, Joseph
 Hitchin, John
 Hough, Robert
 Hoyland, Benjamin
 Hunt, Richard
 Lawton, George
 Lawton, Henry
 Leech, Edward
 Margerison, Thomas
 McCourt, Patrick
 Ogley, George
 Ogley, William
 Oldfield, Robert
 Oxterberry, Thomas
 Palfreyman, Henry
 Parkin, John
 Parkinson, William
 Porter, William
 Porter, William James
 Radcliffe, James
 Rigby, William
 Schofield, John
 Sharrock, William
 Shaw, John
 Walker, Joseph
 Watson, Robert
 Wildsmith, Charles
 Wroe, George
 Wroe, Thomas
 
50 of 59 names found
 
Injured
 Armitage, -
 Barnett, George
 Davy, John
 Hollingworth, William
 Hunt, Edward
 McCourt, -
 Morrison, William
 Pickering, George
 Roder, -
 Rose, -
 Rose, -
 Sowersby, Samuel
 Swift, H.
 Taylor, Charles
 Tyas, Samuel
 Walter, Joseph

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