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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  30th April 1896
Colliery:  Micklefield
Cause:  Explosion of firedamp, propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by naked light
Lives Lost:  62

 Ball, Noah, aged 37
 Barker, William, aged 40
 Bellerby, Fred
 Bellerby, Harry, aged 19
 Benson, Fred, aged 14
 Benson, George, aged 24
 Benson, James, aged 56
 Clarke, Elias, aged 20
 Dean, William, aged 37
 Dunnington, George, aged 20
 Edwards, Frank, aged 35
 Everett, Thomas, aged 27
 Godber, Sam, aged 16
 Goodall, Edward
 Goodall, Sam
 Hayes, George, aged 17
 Herring, William, aged 31
 Howson, Arthur, aged 10
 Jackson, Joseph, aged 30
 Jackson, Walter, aged 28
 James, Sam
 Johnson, Jos., aged 50
 Longden, Tom, aged 43
 Maggs, Edward, aged 26
 Martin, Harold, aged 56
 Martin, Henry, aged 56
 Meakin, John, aged 34
 Millership, Job, aged 52
 Moakes, George, aged 55
 Noble, Charles, aged 33
 Norton, Alfred, aged 28
 Oakeley, Thomas, aged 50
 Radford, William, aged 56
 Rockyard, M.
 Scrimshaw, Rayner, aged 22
 Shelfdon, William, aged 34
 Shepherd, Cvharles, aged 68
 Shepherd, Richard, aged 28
 Shillito, David, aged 55
 Shillito, James, aged 50
 Shillito, John
 Simpson, Arthur, aged 24
 Simpson, George, aged 21
 Simpson, John, aged 26
 Stead, William
 Sutton, John
 Swift, Charles, aged 35
 Talbot, Henry, aged 41
 Taylor, Dan., aged 25
 Varey, William
 Wallis, John, aged 48
 Westerman, Robert, aged 36
 Whitaker, Amos, aged 32
 Whitaker, George, aged 22
 Whitaker, Joseph, aged 55
 Whitaker, William Naylor
 Wilks, William, aged 47
 Wilson, Alfred, aged 19
 Wilson, James, aged 30
 Wilson, Jos., aged 60
 Winfield, Herbert
 Winfield, Joseph
 Winfield, Walter
 
All names found
 
Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 68 ; Average: 36
 Appleyard, William
 Atack, William
 Atkinson, Fred
 Crossthwaite, Tom
 Day, Joseph
 Dobson, William
 Edgington, James
 Evans, Isiah
 Freeman, Thomas
 Hague, Henry
 Hardwick, J.
 Hick, George
 Holding, William
 Marriot, Sam
 Newton, R. H.
 Nutton, Fred
 Pickard, Fielding
 Rawnsley, Feilding
 Rawnsley, Henry
 Render, John
 Revis, Sidney
 Shillito, Fred
 Simmons, John
 Simpson, R.
 Stack, Caleb
 Turner, George
 Warwick, Daniel, snr.
 Warwick, Lot
 Watson, Richard
 Wilson, Joseph
 Winfield, Reuben

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