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| Date: | 4th July 1893 |
| Colliery: | Thornhill, Combs Pit |
| Cause: | Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light |
| Lives Lost: | 139 |
| Andrews, Alexander, aged 15 | |
| Ashton, John, aged 35 | |
| Ashton, Joshua, aged 23 | |
| Ashton, Oliver, aged 15 | |
| Asquith, Herbert, aged 32 | |
| Beaumont, Ephraim, aged 12 | |
| Beaumont, John William, aged 16 | |
| Brook, Aquila, aged 33 | |
| Brook, Charles, aged 14 | |
| Brook, Charles, aged 33 | |
| Burton, Henry, aged 30 | |
| Chapman, George, aged 18 | |
| Coates, Joseph, aged 28 | |
| Coates, Willie, aged 12 | |
| Cole, William, aged 16 | |
| Croft, John, aged 33 | |
| Croft, Samuel, aged 28 | |
| Crossley, George, aged 23 | |
| Crossley, Samuel, aged 65 | |
| Drake, Stephen, aged 40 | |
| Dunford, Herbert, aged 18 | |
| Dyson, Tom, aged 33 | |
| Ellis, John, aged 36 | |
| Ellis, Thomas, aged 32 | |
| Ellis, William, aged 60 | |
| Fearnley, Edward, aged 55 | |
| Fearnley, Edward, aged 16 | |
| Fenton, George, aged 36 | |
| Field, Walter, aged 15 | |
| Firth, Alfred, aged 19 | |
| Firth, Charles, aged 46 | |
| Fisher, George, aged 25 | |
| Fox, John, aged 15 | |
| Fox, Thomas, aged 13 | |
| Frith, Eli, aged 17 | |
| Frith, George, aged 15 | |
| Garthwaite, Rowland Blakeley, aged 22 | |
| Goldthorpe, William, aged 41 | |
| Goldthorpe, William, aged 70 | |
| Grimsdale, Arthur, aged 15 | |
| Halstead, Henry, aged 57 | |
| Hampshire, William, aged 36 | |
| Hardcastle, John, aged 49 | |
| Hardcastle, Walter, aged 24 | |
| Hill, James, aged 25 | |
| Hills, Thomas Stanley, aged 14 | |
| Hinchcliffe, Harry, aged 20 | |
| Hinchcliffe, Jonathan, aged 46 | |
| Jackson, William, aged 27 | |
| Jessop, Harry, aged 17 | |
| Jessop, Matthew, aged 26 | |
| Lee, Lewis, aged 26 | |
| Lee, Sykes, aged 18 | |
| Lightowler, Henry, aged 31 | |
| Lightowler, Isaac, aged 36 | |
| Little, Joseph, aged 22 | |
| Longbottom, John, aged 40 | |
| Longbottom, Smith, aged 15 | |
| Milnes, Benjamin, aged 22 | |
| Milnes, Fransord, aged 12 | |
| Milnes, George, aged 51 | |
| Milnes, James, aged 17 | |
| Mort, Edward, aged 36 | |
| Netherwood, John B., aged 15 | |
| Nobel, James, aged 16 | |
| Nobel, Joseph, aged 44 | |
| Oates, Arthur, aged 18 | |
| Oates, Fred, aged 15 | |
| Pickard, Richard, aged 49 | |
| Ramsden, Abraham, aged 39 | |
| Ramsden, Alfred Alonzo, aged 17 | |
| Ramsden, Benjamin, aged 31 | |
| Ramsden, David, aged 44 | |
| Ramsden, Matthew, aged 59 | |
| Ransden, Willie, aged 16 | |
| Roberts, Josiah, aged 40 | |
| Rusby, Charles, aged 40 | |
| Rusby, Fred, aged 17 | |
| Scarfe, Joseph, aged 16 | |
| Scargill, James, aged 50 | |
| Scargill, Lot, aged 28 | |
| Scargill, Robert, aged 40 | |
| Scargill, Rufus, aged 16 | |
| Senior, Lot, aged 62 | |
| Sheard, Ernest, aged 13 | |
| Sheard, James, aged 54 | |
| Smith, John William, aged 42 | |
| Smith, Mark, aged 29 | |
| Speight, Herbert, aged 28 | |
| Steadman, James Joseph, aged 24 | |
| Stevenson, William, aged 15 | |
| Summerscales, Henry, aged 59 | |
| Swallow, William Henry, aged 25 | |
| Thornes, Lambert, aged 15 | |
| Tindale, John, aged 34 | |
| Watkins, Thomas, aged 15 | |
| Wilcock, George, aged 30 | |
| Wilcock, Walter Henry Oxley, aged 51 | |
| Wilkinson, George, aged 52 | |
| Wood, George, aged 39 | |
| Wood, Joseph, aged 15 | |
| Wood, Sam, aged 40 | |
| Wood, William, aged 12 | |
| Wraithmell, Herbert, aged 18 | |
| Wraithmell, Willie, aged 13 | |
| Wroe, William Varley, aged 42 | |
106 of 139 names found | |
Youngest: 12 years old ; Oldest: 70 ; Average: 29 |
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