EADIE Alexander - 1907 - 24/10/1907 – Age 19 - Dysart Miner, Earl of Rosslyn, Fife. Deceased was at work in the first working of the Dysart Main Coal Seam, when the roof coal fell over a large area and part fell on him and crushed him against a tub, which he was filling at the time.

EADIE William - 1902 - 25/09/1902 – Age 42 - Craigleith, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, John Best, Edinburgh. Deceased was proceeding to his work Quarry bottom and while passing along a pathway, on a ledge of rock, he stumbled and fell to the bottom, a distance of 25 feet.

EALES Walter - 1903 - 19/10/1903 - Age 25 - Randolph Hewer, Borth Bitchburn Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Took ill in the pit and died from natural causes soon after reaching the surface.

EAMES Thomas Vingard - 1908 - 30/01/1908 – Age 30 - Granville No.1 Stallman, Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Deceased was cutting out the holing sprags to got down the coal, when he either slipped or fell in front of the falling coal or the coal pushed a sprag out before he could get clear away. He died 1st February.

EARLE William - 1906 - 08/08/1906 – Age 27 - Canderrigg, Broomfield No.4 Engineman, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gelignite and gunpowder in a bothy. It was said to have been caused by the bursting of an old electric incandescent lamp which they were testing. 3 killed.

EARLIE James - 1902 - 24/11/1902 – Age 34 - Cadzow No 3 Prop drawer, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof while drawing props.

EARLY Michael jnr. - 1908 - 17/08/1908 – Age 36 - Glencraig Miner, Wilsons C and Lyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife, Deceased worked in a place approaching waste, and the roof required careful watching. While he was at work part of the roof fell upon him. Probably had more timber been set, the accident would not have occurred.

EARNSHAW George - 1909 - 12/02/1909 – Age 50 - South Kirkby Collier, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was entering a waste (after being sent off for a few minutes) to resume his work of filling the top coal, which he had previously dropped, when he was killed by a sudden fall of roof.

EARNSHAW James - 1902 - 14/05/1902 – Age 36 - Todmorden Moor Collier, JG Dearden, Yorkshire. Died 18th May. Explosion of firedamp in working place. Cause naked lights.

EASBY Henry - 1906 - 20/12/1906 – Age 27 - Leasingthorne Waggonwayman, Bolckow Vaughan & Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When about to pass a tub, on the straight road, a large stone fell from the roof and killed him. Side coal was being taken off at the time to widen the road.

EASTMAN Ralph - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 58 - Moss No.5 Underground manager, Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. He attempted to pull some stones down from the roof with a pick, when a fall of roof occurred upon him.

EASTMAN Thomas - 1900 - 10/03/1900 – Age 46 - Glyn Collier, Glyn Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan, Fall at face cliff, 9 feet x 2.5 feet x 15 inches thick, inside of props 3 feet back from the face. Died on 14th March. No. 3 Rhondda seam.

EASTMENT William - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 25 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan, This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 29 Bailey St., Wattstown.

EASTON James - 1903 - 03/11/1903 – Age 31 - Carronhill Brusher, Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased and another had fired a brushing shot and were forming a roadside building with the debris. To give easier access to the building he had taken out some breaking trees at roadside thereby apparently relieving a large overhanging stone which fell upon and instantly killed him.

EASTON Robert - 1906 - 25/09/1906 – Age 29 - Cadzow No.1 Roadsman, Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. The engineman raised the cage a few feet above the pithead, seeing which Easton jumped off, but fell back and down the shaft.

EASTWOOD James - 1905 - 17/03/1905 – Age 53 - Southgate, Sandstone Foreman, Bentley and Smith, Yorkshire. He was charging a shot-hole with a charge of gelignite when it exploded and killed him and injured another man.

EATOCK John - 1905 - 29/03/1905 – Age 14 - Grange Pulley minder, Crompton and Shawcross Co., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He appears to have been tightening the lashing chain to the endless rope as the full tubs were in motion he somehow slipped and got fatally crushed by the full tubs.

EATON John W. - 1907 - 21/09/1907 – Age 17 - Shelton Deep Shunter, Shelton Iron Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, when lowering two empty trucks towards the screens, was sitting on the handle of the brake lever at the front of the first truck, his legs hanging over the rail. He slipped off the lever and fell with his leg across the rails and the front wheel passed over it. He died from shock four hours later. A brake stick was supplied but it was alleged that it could not be used in this instance as owing to the brake block being worn the lever was too far down.

EATON Philip - 1903 - 04/12/1903 – Age 34 - Broadoak Repairer, Samuel Thomas, Glamorgan. Fall on road while holing a piece of coal on the side of a level which he was repairing, it suddenly fell upon him causing death in half an hour. Not properly spragged. Five-feet seam.

EAVES William - 1908 - 09/10/1908 – Age 42 - Coalpit Heath Examiner, Coalpit Heath Colliery Co., Gloucester. Fall of roof while engaged drawing props in the waste. He should have used a Sylvester prop, a drawer which was available but omitted doing so, as also to set props for his protection.

EBBANS Thomas - 1909 - 24/05/1909 – Age 31 - Holly Bank No.15 Stallman. Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. The accident occurred at a face in the Eight Feet Seam. The coal had been cut by a mechanical coal-cutter two days previously, the front of the holing being spragged, and deceased was engaged in getting down this coal. After removing the dirt from the holing and taking out some sprags he tried to wedge down a portion of the coal but failing to get it down he decided to again sprag it and leave it to be thrown down. He had put in one sprag and the leader was getting him another when the coal suddenly fell and buried deceased, who was dead when got out. The withdrawal of the sprags and the wedging of the coal had evidently disturbed it and prepared it for falling suddenly.

ECCLES Constantine - 1904 - 25/01/1904 - Age 35 - Blantyre Ferme Miner, A and G Moore and Co., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof from brushing face. The brushers were taking down loose stones when he went below them.

ECCLES George - 1905 - 06/05/1905 – Age 53 - Featherstone Main Collier, Featherstone Main Colliery Co., Yorkshire. A deputy had visited his working place and ordered him to set a prop under some stone, which appeared to be unsafe, while he was clearing the bottom to get the prop set a stone fell from the roof and fatally injured him.

ECCLES John - 1908 - 20/11/1908 – Age 65 - Edgeworth Quarry Labourer, DT Alderson, Lancashire. Fell down a steep slope and thence into Quarry hole. Stumbled whilst near edge. Insufficient space between tramway and edge, fence required. (Died 21st.)

ECCLESTON James - 1901 - 26/01/1901 – Age 23 - Prospect Collier, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had commenced holing under the coal, having a sprag set against the coal and a prop set vertical under overhanging ley, when a piece of coal and ley came away from a slip capping the sprag and crushed the deceased against a prop fatally injuring him. He expired the same day.

ECKERSLEY Joseph - 1903 - 13/06/1903 – Age 20 - Peel Hall Shunter, James Roscoe and Sons, Lancashire. Whilst riding on the front buffer of the waggon he slipped and fell on to the rails, the wheel passed over him.

EDDLESTON William - 1903 - 08/07/1903 – Age 17 - Moorfields Jenny tenter, Altham Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Crushed between chain and jenny wheel, although forbidden he placed himself inside the ongoing chain to help another tenter to put the wheel in gear. Notices posted forbidding this and further fencing provided.

EDDY Joseph - 1902 - 10/04/1902 – Age 53 - Mickley Rolleywayman, Mickley Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Died on 12th April. An endless haulage road extends southwards from Mickley Colliery to the Hedley workings. This road is underground for its first portion, then traverses the surface and is again underground. Where it passes over the surface it is enclosed as a protection for cattle. On this enclosed road the accident happened. Deceased was adjusting a sleeper and was run over by a set of tubs he had not observed.

EDEN John - 1901 - 08/05/1901 – Age 45 - Lea Green Collier, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., St Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of rock roof occurred, about 6 feet back from the face of the downbrow, capping three props and fatally injuring him. Died 10th May.

EDGAR David - 1908 - 31/01/1908 – Age 32 - Moat, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Herbert Sons Ltd., Cumberland. He made no mention to any one of an accident but complained to a fellow workman on the way home of a pain in his bowels. He died the following day. No inquest was held and the doctor certified that death was due to inflammation of the bowels caused by strain at his work.

EDGE Richard Thomas - 1903 - 19/12/1903 – Age 47 - Apedale, Watermills Collier, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (rock) at longwall face in Bullhurst seam. A piece of the roof, weighing about 5 tons and of triangular section, fell from between two slips, one of which was exposed but the other could not be seen. Three posts were displaced from under the stone by its fall.

EDGE Walter - 1905 - 04/08/1905 – Age 45 - South Normanton Banksman, South Normanton Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was crushed between two railway wagons, the first of which ran into some standing wagons as deceased attempted to pass across the line.

EDGELER Thomas - 1902 - 13/05/1902 – Age 73 - Northfleet, Chalk Quarry Labourer, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd., Kent. When leaving the Quarry, after the day's work by way of a tunnel through which the waggons of chalk are drawn by a locomotive, he was knocked down by the locomotive and received such injuries that death resulted 40 hours afterwards.

EDGELEY Mary - 1904 - 20/10/1904 – Age 27 - Podmore Hall, Not employed, Stafford. Killed by being knocked down by wagons at a level crossing on private railway. Female.

EDGELL John - 1903 - 20/11/1903 – Age 34 - Ratcheugh, Whinstone Quarry Shotfirer, Northumberland. Whinstone Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A horizontal hole, 7 feet deep, had been drilled in the whin rock at the bottom of the Quarry (where water collected). It had been fired three times, a few days before the accident, and the rock displaced and worked off. Three or four feet of the hole was left on and on the day of the accident this was charged with about 1 lb of fine-grained gunpowder and fired by means of Bickford Smith & Co.'s No.9 double tape sump fuse, for use in very wet ground. About half an hour afterwards deceased and his assistant charged the hole a second time with 3 lbs. of gunpowder and were stemming it, using the wooden end of a wood and upper loader, when the charge exploded killing deceased and seriously injuring his assistant. The presumption is that a portion of the fuse from the first shot had remained smouldering in the hole.

EDGEWORTH Walter - 1903 - 04/07/1903 – Age 48 - Brickworks, Clay Quarry Clay cutter, Scourse Bros., Somerset. When standing on a narrow ledge, picking clay, he was knocked backwards over the ledge by a fall of clay and received injuries from which he died on 26th March, 1904.

EDGINGTON F. - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 34 - West Riding Ripper, Pope and Pearson, Yorkshire. Fall of rock in a gate road which he was enlarging. Cause previously unsuspected slip.

EDGLEY Frederick - 1903 - 02/03/1903 – Age 32 - Leycett, Fair Lady Dataler, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof while repairing a dip in 7 feet Banbury seam. A goth preceded the fall which came from a slip.

EDIS Ernest – 1909 – 10/05/1909 – Age 35 – Orgreave Boiler attendant, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was found dead and fearfully burnt on a flue at the end of the coke oven boilers. The flue had collapsed and he had been killed by the very hot gases.

EDMONDS Noah – 1905 – 10/03/1905 – Age 49 – Cambrian No.1 Repairer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

EDMONDS Thomas – 1903 – 18/09/1903 – Age 23 – Cefn Slip Collier, Bryndu and Port Talbot Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal and clod. Died 23rd February, 1904.

EDMUNDS Edgar – 1909 – 05/04/1909 – Age 19 – Dowlais Cardiff Haulier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was found crushed between a parting cog and a full tram, which his horse was bringing out of a stall road. The cog had squeezed out, but there was ample room on the other side of the road.

EDMUNDS Gwilym – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones.

EDMUNDS Richard – 1906 – 24/03/1906 – Age 38 – Llanelly, Limestone Quarry Labourer, Clydach and Abergavenny Lime and Stone Co. Ltd., Brecon. As a wagon of rubbish was being taken to the tip, deceased, who was assisting the haulier, attempted to unhitch the horse’s chains and in so doing fell and was run over.

EDMUNDS Thomas – 1903 – 03/04/1903 – Age 27 – Trimdon Grange Putter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from injuries received by a fall of stone in the pit 18th Feb. 1895.

EDMUNDSON L. – 1901 – 11/02/1901 – Age 35 – East Ardsley Collier, R Halliday and Sons, Yorkshire. Fall of shot shaken coal from the roof of an airway which he was repairing.

EDNEY William – 1905 – 05/10/1905 – Age 38 – Littlemoor, Sand Quarry Quarryman, Great Western Railway Co., Oxford. Deceased was driving a wedge in a stone forming a ledge on the Quarry face. The stone gave way and caused him to fall with it to the bottom of the Quarry. He died 11th Jan. 1906.

EDWARD Henry – 1903 – 18/05/1903 – Age 20 Granville No.2 Stone loader, Granville Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was loading coal near a fault, up to which timber had been set, when a fall took place from another fault which was not seen by the workmen.

EDWARD William – 1902 – 01/02/1902 – Age 74 – Horse feeder, Staffordshire. Died on colliery embankment while going to work. Inquest returned verdict from natural causes.

EDWARDS Aaron – 1900 – 05/04/1900 – Age 20 – Ty Trist Labourer, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal where he was working with two experienced men. The accident was due to gross carelessness and recklessness on the part of John Pritchard, timberman, in having put him to fill rubbish under top coal from under which he had knocked out the timber with a view to getting it down.

EDWARDS Abraham – 1901 – 03/06/1901 – Age 52 – Bwllfa Dare Haulier, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While leading a horse to the stable something so startled it that it jumped and fell on him causing such injuries that he died on June 23.

EDWARDS Adolphus – 1905 – 10/11/1905 – Age 25 – Byers Green Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Attacked by illness in mine, went home and died of pneumonia, not induced by any accident.

EDWARDS Albert – 1901 – 13/03/1901 – Age 20 – Varteg Hill Collier, J Vipond and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof coal at the face from unseen slips. There should have been additional props set but they were delayed through the bottom coal having not been set up and the setting of temporary ones was considered too much trouble.

EDWARDS Albert – 1906 – 20/08/1906 – Age 18 – Florence Scraper out, Florence Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was a scraper-out on a face, cut under by a holing machine. He was killed by a piece of coal weighing three or four tons which fell off the face while he was scraping slack from the cut immediately beneath. Loose coal on the face had been noticed early in the shift, and stretchers set had been taken out, the face brushed and fresh timber set. At the back of the lump was a slip parallel to the face. It is probable that the slack removed by scraping released the coal at the back of the cut, and it dropped sufficiently to loose hold of the stretcher supporting it and then rolled over and outwards onto deceased.

EDWARDS D Olider – 1901 – 22/10/1901 – Age 14 – Weig Fawr Carter boy, Philip Richard, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road (stall), while coming out with the colliers a stone from between two slips and between double timbers, 5 feet apart, fell upon him. Hughes' seam.

EDWARDS D.W. – 1903 – 19/08/1903 – Age 18 – Fochriw No.1 Collier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff 5 feet 9 inches by 1 foot by 25 inches thick fell while deceased and his mates were turning a stall off a heading the roof of which had been ripped. A prop had been stood under it but was balanced by the stone. A sprag should have been set against the stone which formed the side of the ripping. Six feet seam.

EDWARDS Daniel – 1906 – 31/07/1906 – Age 42 – Middle Duffryn Pitman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was standing on the cage, about 30 yards down the shaft, while two pump rods were being lowered, when the bolt to which the rope was attached before the rods in falling knocked deceased off the cage and he fell to the bottom. The bolt was 1.75 inches in diameter and was quite new. The weight of the rods was 2 tons 13 cwt.

EDWARDS David – 1901 – 26/07/1901 – Age 24 – Maritime Waggon rider, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell off an empty waggon and was run over.

EDWARDS David – 1909 – 29/10/1909 – Age 45 – Darran Collier, Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

EDWARDS E. – 1900 – 21/06/1900 – Age 60 – Abercanaid Labourer, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While coming out he was overtaken and run over by a journey he having neglected to enter a manhole.

EDWARDS Edward – 1903 – 20/01/1903 – Age 72 – Fishley No.4 Carter, Fishley Colliery Co. Ltd., Stafford. Knocked down and run over by a loaded cart at Landsale wharf. Died 11th February.

EDWARDS Edward – 1905 – 22/12/1905 – Age 30 – Hafod Collier, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. When liberating some sprags, set against the coal, more coal came than he expected, which knocked out two props, causing some roof coal and dirt to fall upon him and he was killed.

EDWARDS Edward – 1907 – 14/09/1907 – Age 55 – Tillery Collier, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face from insufficient timbering where it was bad. He neither secured the roof from his own experience nor as ordered by the Examiner. Having delayed setting a post for two hours after he was told to do so, he paid the penalty of this neglect with his life.

EDWARDS Edward – 1907 – 16/08/1907 – Age 30 – Victoria Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in a disused stall road. He and another man were sent to pull down and load up some loose coal which had fallen before taking up the rails. On his comrade touching it, to examine it before commencing to work, about 2.5 tons fell and caught Edwards causing serious injury from which he died the same day.

EDWARDS Edward – 1909 – 22/12/1909 – Age 43 – Princess Collier, Richard Evans and Co., Haydock, Lancashire. When going home on the colliery railway, towards Pewfall Colliery, he got on a coal train against orders, and sometime afterwards, in getting off, he fell under the waggons and was killed.

EDWARDS Eleazar – 1906 – 25/05/1906 – Age 24 – Dowlais Cardiff Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Through a mistake an empty journey was drawn in along a level before all the horses had been brought out. A haulier and deceased were following a horse out. When the journey touched the horse it turned round and in doing so threw deceased under the trains.

EDWARDS George – 1904 – 29/08/1904 – Age 38 – Woodfield Deputy, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When examining part of his tram he moved a stone, about 1 foot by 1.5 feet from the way. About half an hour afterwards he complained of pain, and it was afterwards found that he was ruptured and had to be sent to Newcastle Infirmary. He died of peritonitis on September 5th.

EDWARDS George – 1908 – 09/10/1908 – Age 21 – Navigation Collier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, with others, had descended the shaft, and the lower deck of the cage was resting on the fans to allow them to go out, when as deceased was passing out, it slipped off the fans and crushed him to death. The fans may not have been properly under the cage, or the engineman may have just lifted the cage, and caused the fans to fall out from under it.

EDWARDS George – 1908 – 22/09/1908 – Age 21 – Rotherham Main Electrician, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was walking up an endless rope haulage road when he was caught by a runaway empty tub, which had become liberated from the hauling rope owing to a defective link of a lashing chain breaking. The chain was made of iron 5/16 inch diameter but the weld had not been a good one. Refuge holes are provided within the distances required by the Coal Mines Act but the travelling way is between the rail roads and the deceased had evidently become confused he would not be able to tell whether the runaway tub was an empty or full one-and did not get into a refuge hole.

EDWARDS George - 1909 - 27/01/1909 – Age 42 - Nine Mile Point Ripper, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof stone from between two slips while ripping a thickness of 12 inches of clod. He was at the mouth of a stall road of Symons Heading. About 30 cwt. fell from the bed above that which he was ripping.

EDWARDS George H. - 1904 - 01/08/1904 – Age 21 - Wednesbury Oak Cager, Staffordshire. Fell down shaft from Brooch Coal inset.

EDWARDS George T - 1909 - 17/03/1909 – Age 43 - Gwersyllt Collier, Westminster Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. When capping a prop, a stone fell from the roof upon him. He died February 27, 1910.

EDWARDS Griffith J. - 1905 - 30/08/1905 – Age 25 - Cawdor Haulier, Cawdor and Garnant Collieries, Carmarthen. Fall of roof stone road; while passing in with an empty ‘journey’ the roof and one side of the level fell over an area of 60 feet, displacing two pairs of double timbers. Red vein.

EDWARDS Henry - 1904 - 01/01/1904 – Age 33 - Ynishir, Sinking Sinker, Ynishir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Deceased was with other sinkers, examining the sides of the shaft on a walling stage, which had a space of 2 feet between it and the sides when he suddenly fell through this space to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 24 feet. When walling there was only a space of 3 inches between the stage and wall.

EDWARDS Henry - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Age 17 - Darran Collier, Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

EDWARDS J.W. - 1903 - 27/07/1903 – Age 17 - Rotherham Main Hurrier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Was loading a tub close to the coal face when several pieces burst off the face, one struck him and injured him so severely that he died the same day. Cause a sudden weight or bump.

EDWARDS James - 1900 - 05/04/1900 – Age 19 - Tillery Collier, Powells Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of coal from unseen slip in his working place.

EDWARDS James - 1901 - 24/05/1901 - Universal Repairer’s helper, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported upon by W Galloway Cd 947. 81 killed.

EDWARDS James - 1905 - 21/08/1905 – Age 47 - Orgreave Collier, Rothervale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. The man who was working with him was drawing timber near the face and he was holding a light. A prop had just been knocked out when a fall of roof occurred and killed him.

EDWARDS James - 1909 - 02/09/1909 – Age 55 - Princess Royal, Flour Mill Collier, Princess Royal Colliery Co. Ltd., Gloucester. Half of a large and unseen "Bell" mould fell suddenly upon him, where he was about to start at a place out of his stall road. The Examiner had only just sent him to the place and had not left him there three minutes when it occurred. As a precautionary measure he had set a post close outside the edge of the stone which fell.

EDWARDS John - 1907 - 14/02/1907 – Age 56 - Birchenwood No.18 Overman, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. This was a very unusual accident. Deceased was examining the roof of a main level road when a small piece of stone fell and grazed his nose. He thought nothing of it and continued at work for nine days. Five days later he consulted a doctor, and on 25th March he succumbed to exhaustion from suppuration and diabetes, the former being attributed to the wound, which, owing to his condition had shown no tendency to heal.

EDWARDS John - 1907 - 21/08/1907 – Age 39 - Holly Bank Collier, Holly Bank Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. During a stoppage of work, over the Bank Holiday-foot seam, extending several yards in length and about 15 feet in height above the coal. A special set of timbers had cleared the end of the gate-road and set bars and pollings up to within 3 feet 6 inches of the coal face and left it as being secure and ready for the collier. Deceased was setting another bar close to the coal when a small piece of stone fell from the side of the cavity above the coal, striking him on the head fracturing his skull.

EDWARDS John - 1909 - 30/04/1909 – Age 38 - Clifton Hall Collier, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, he had just commenced to hole, owing to inclination, face top heavy hence urgent need for sprags to be set before commencing to hole.

EDWARDS John jnr. - 1907 - 21/09/1907 – Age 23 - Quinton Loader, Quinton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. A fall of roof and side had taken place in a crosscut 7 feet wide, at a point where it crossed a 6 feet upthrow, making the road about 11 feet wide and 12 feet in height. Two pikemen were sent to secure it, and the deceased, to assist them to handle the heavy timbers and to work under their direction. Two sets of timber had been set side, laced and poled, and they were about to set a third. A needle hole had been cut at one side and one bar 11 feet long rested on it and the men were raising the other end of the bar to rest it on a prop 8 feet 6 inches in height when a large stone 5 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet suddenly fell upon the bar and slid down it crushing the men under it. Benton was killed outright Edward’s skull was fractured and he died five days afterwards and the other two men were seriously injured. One of them was acting as fireman and had inspected the place in the morning before work was commenced and at frequent intervals during the day. The roof consisted of blue bind and was wet and slippery. After the accident the stone was found to have fallen away from a slip. 2 killed.

EDWARDS John William - 1906 - 24/05/1906 – Age 35 - Saltwells No. 37 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Fall of top coal. 4 killed.

EDWARDS Joseph - 1900 - 20/04/1900 – Age 25 - Vron Filler, Vron Colliery Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were engaged filling a tub of coal, at the face, when a piece of roof coal three feet in thickness fell upon them from between two slips capping a prop. The roof was propped on each side of the roadway but not barred. 2 killed.

EDWARDS Joseph - 1908 - 24/06/1908 – Age 24 - Elm No.1 Filler, G Watkinson and Sons, Flintshire. He was assisting a collier to set a prop near the face, when a stone fell from some slips in the roof upon him, capping a prop.

EDWARDS Lewis - 1905 - 11/04/1905 – Age 25 - Rhymney Merthyr No.2 Collier, Rhymney Iron Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. At face cliff, 4 feet by 4 feet by 22 inches thick, part of "rippings. A prop had been set under it, but the weight of the stone crushed it out. Ras Las seam.

EDWARDS Lewis - 1909 - 21/06/1909 – Age 27 - Llay Hall Collier, Executors of ES Clark, Denbigh. He was engaged getting coal at the face when a piece of top coal fell upon him from a slip capping a sprag.

EDWARDS Richard - 1904 - 13/06/1904 – Age 38 - Van, Lead Trammer, Van Mines Ltd., Montgomery. He fell from part way down a shaft, with a waggon which he pushed in at an intermediate landing. Instantly killed. He must have forgotten to replace the fence at the entrance after removing another waggon from the cage.

EDWARDS Richard - 1908 - 06/10/1908 – Age 40 - Maindy Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal, 8 feet by 3 feet by 5 feet thick, part of which lie was trying to pull down, fell as he, expecting a much shorter piece to fall, was standing in front of it. He was so injured that he died on the following day. One sprag at least was crushed out. The rise of the seam was 15 inches per yard. New seam.

EDWARDS Robert - 1909 - 15/02/1909 – Age 14 - North Biddick Driver, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He received a shock from a lighting cable, the insulation of which by constant rubbing against the end of the tubing carrying the cable, had been worn out. The arrangement was not good. Fittings should be screwed directly on to the tubing and not be suspended merely by the cables. The tubing for carrying cables should be substantial and not the usual thin kind used for house lighting. In the same way, the switches, fuse boxes, and other gear, originally intended for use in houses should not be used underground, but other of a stronger pattern and type should be installed.

EDWARDS Robert - 1909 - 31/08/1909 – Age 48 - Sutton Heath Contractor, Sutton Heath and Lea Green Co., St Helens, Lancashire. He had been drawing out props, in order to blow the roof down, when the roof fell upon him.

EDWARDS Robert J. - 1907 - 04/09/1907 – Age 18 - Hafod No.1 Gang rider, Ruabon Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Deceased when riding with the haulage journey when he apparently slipped and got fatally crushed by the full tubs.

EDWARDS Samuel - 1908 - 30/11/1908 – Age 35 - Granville Filler, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Shropshire. Deceased was lifting a piece of dirt, when it broke in his hands. To avoid the falling pieces he jumped backwards and collided with a prop, bruising his back. He resumed work on 11th January, 1909, but died suddenly when at work. The medical evidence at the inquest attributed death to cardiac failure, accelerated by the accident.

EDWARDS Sid (escaped) - 1909 - 29/10/1909 – Darran, Rhymney Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident has been the subject of a Special Report. 27 men lost their lives and 4 were injured.

EDWARDS Simon - 1902 - 20/11/1902 – Age 46 - Westminster Shifter, Westminster and Brymbo Coal and Coke Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were forming a slant down the longwall face when a stone fell from a slip in the roof upon the deceased capping a prop which had be recently set. The props were about five feet apart and they were setting a chock to enable them to get the roof down to a stronger parting above.

EDWARDS Sylvanus - 1900 - 13/08/1900 – Age 40 - Westminster Collier, Westminster & Brymbo Coal and Coke Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were commencing to work one of the pillars, on the upper side on the main level, when a stone fell on the deceased when he was preparing to set the first prop.

EDWARDS Thomas - 1900 - 10/05/1900 – Age 47 - White Moss Collier, White Moss Coal Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquiry made and inquest attended. They were driving a ribbing in the new seven feet mine when a fall of roof coal fell upon them from between two slips and capping two props. They succumbed to the injuries. Apparently they did not set enough props before holing the place through. 2 killed.

EDWARDS Thomas - 1901 - 18/03/1901 – Age 45 - Ynyshir Collier, Ynyshir Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, and fireclay 3 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot thick, one prop discharged. Died 25th. Nine feet seam.

EDWARDS Thomas - 1902 - 26/03/1902 – Age 15 - Elemore Landing lad, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When hauling ropes were running he slipped and fell and his arm got under one of them. He was taken to Sunderland Infirmary and while under chloroform collapsed and died.

EDWARDS Thomas - 1906 - 26/06/1906 – Age 23 - Caradog Vale Collier, South Wales United Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Irruption of water. 4 killed.

EDWARDS Thomas - 1907 - 31/07/1907 – Age 21 - Garw Asst. timberman, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while repairing. The deceased had been assisting a timberman to strengthen the timbers on a roadway which had shown evidence of considerable roof crush. They had begun setting timbers on either side of those already standing. They then went to a manhole to prepare wedges to fasten the timbering to the sides, when a huge fall of roof crushed down and killed Edwards, the timberman being also slightly injured. About 40 tons of roof material was estimated to have come down. Lower seam. Safety lamps.

EDWARDS Thomas G - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 23 - National No.2 Haulier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

EDWARDS Thomas G. - 1900 - 17/04/1900 – Age 24 - Castell Coch Quarry Quarryman, Isaac Morgan and Co., Glamorgan. While barring down limestone, loosened by a shot, the whole mass gave way and he fell with it a distance of 40 feet and was crushed by the debris.

EDWARDS Thomas H. - 1902 - 29/10/1902 – Age 21 - South Tunnel Rider, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. In attempting to get on to the rope, attached to a moving journey of ten trams, he slipped and fell and the whole journey passed over him. He was found soon after badly bruised and died on November 1st.

EDWARDS Tom - 1905 - 17/08/1905 – Age 15 - Radstock Driver, Rt Hon. Earl of Waldegrave, Somerset. He was lowering full tubs down a self acting incline, and failing to stop them in time, by means of the brake, he was crushed by the ascending waggons against the drum.

EDWARDS Tudor - 1903 - 01/05/1903 – Age 15 - Maindy Door boy, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 4 feet by 3 feet by 4 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was riding out on a barhook attached to a loaded tram drawn by a horse. The roof was unsupported. Upper seam.

EDWARDS W. - 1900 - 18/01/1900 – Age 18 - Abergorky Haulier, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a loaded tram which he was taking down a heading. It is supposed he missed putting a sprag in the wheel.

EDWARDS William - 1900 - 12/12/1900 – Age 41 - Darran Checkweigher, Rhymney Iron Company Ltd., Monmouth. Died suddenly on the 12th December from heart disease. Not comprised.

EDWARDS William - 1903 - 16/01/1903 – Age 58 - Black Park Collier, Black Park Colliery Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased and his mate had placed six full tubs of dirt, from a fall against a stopblock in the downbrow, the stopblock gave way and he was struck by the tubs running downbrow. He succumbed to the injuries received at the hospital March 6th. 1903.

EDWARDS William - 1905 - 12/10/1905 – Age 40 - Ashington Hewer, Ashington Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. A 10 yard bord had been driven in the Yard seam and packs put in close to the coal on each side of it with openings on one side for longwall gateways in which a top caunch had been shot out nearly to the coal. After standing some time a gateway was started and deceased was kyrving in the top seam. After working a short time some stone fell and nearly caught him, he left and went to a place where his cross-marrow worked and proposed to work with him as the fallen stone was in his way. He however returned to his own place where he was shortly afterwards visited by his cross-marrow when he said that after finishing filling the tub he would come to him. Soon after they found him under a stone and dead. The stone was about 6 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet wide and from 2 feet to 18 inches thick, it was relieved by two jacks crossing the face diagonally, one of which was quite visible before the fall and by a jack over the coal which he had bared in kyrving. A prop and head was swung out by the fall. The accident occurred in the night shift and the back-shift deputy had examined the place before the nigh-shift hewers started but the night-shift deputy had not visited the place and under the circumstances it would have been prudent had deceased sent for him. There appears to have been sufficient loose timber. The Local Inspectors in their report described the fall, and what loose timber they found, and concluded ‘otherwise in our opinion in good order.’

EDWARDS William - 1905 - 27/07/1905 – Age 51 - Ty Trist Hitcher, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was struck on the head by something which fell out of the shaft wall near the surface, which does not appear to have been properly examined.

EDWARDS William - 1906 - 22/02/1906 – Age 40 - Cambrian No.2 Haulier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was sitting on the crossbar of an empty train, drawn by a horse, when some small stones, from between the laggings of some double timbers, fell on the horse’s back and caused it to spring forward. Deceased lost his balance and fell forward under the tram. He died in three days, having sustained a fracture of the spine.

EDWARDS William - 1908 - 10/02/1908 – Age 58 - Llwynypia No.6 Repairer, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, a rock 4.5 feet by 3 feet by 10 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was filling rubbish off the road. His brother said that they did not sound the roof as it looked so strong. It was unsupported. Six feet seam.

EDWARDS William - 1908 - 17/03/1908 – Age 39 - Ffaldau Braichycymmer Fireman, Ffaldau Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at a face road end; a stone 7 feet by 4 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 3 inches, fell as it was being sounded and tested by the fireman. The previous shift had not long left the place, and had been ripping the roof at this spot. The stone was surrounded by slants and slips, and should have been taken down by the previous shift. A collier was badly injured by the fall which proved fatal to the fireman. Six Feet Seam. Safety lamps.

EDWARDS William Herbert - 1907 - 12/09/1907 – Age 17 - Littleton Motor driver, Littleton Collieries Ltd., Staffordshire. Killed by electrocution.

EGAN Timothy - 1905 - 11/09/1905 – Age 49 - Moston Collier, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof at face from between two slips. He knocked out a prop, ought to have set one before doing so. (Occurred 9th November, 1904.) (Good roof).

EGGINGTON Thomas - 1908 - 05/06/1908 – Age 27 - Pendlebury Collier, Pendlebury Coal Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was engaged as a dirt loader in the sinking of an old shaft to a lower level. He had been a sinker for nine years but had not worked in a sinking pit before. He commenced work at 6 pm on the night preceding the accident and during the shift was on the surface several times resting in turn with the others. At 6 am on the completion of his shift deceased was, with the chargeman, returning to the surface in the bowk, both riding with one leg out, a shot having previously been ignited in the bottom. When the bowk was just reaching the top of the shaft the winding engine stopped on the centre, and the engineman lowered back a little, and then, reversing, raised the bowk quickly to the top. Deceased was seen to grab at the fencing (rails round the top of shaft, and when the bowk raised he was pulled out and thrown head foremost down the pit, a distance of 27 yards after which the shot exploded. Deceased apparently grabbed the fencing to save himself when the bowk was lowered, had he sat still, as did the chargeman, he would have been safe. Unfortunately he did not understand what was happening, and the chargeman did not give him warning. Having one leg out of the bowk he would have, more easily, lost his balance and been thrown out.

EGGLESTONE William - 1900 - 25/05/1900 – Age 19 - Binchester Fitter, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Binchester, Co.Durham. This man was not employed by the Colliery Company. He was crossing the line and got between two trucks, which were being lowered from the screens, and was fatally crushed. (Not comprised)

EILBECK Robert - 1905 - 14/01/1905 – Age 25 - Walker Stoneman, Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased and another stoneman were taking down a waggonway caunch in a road in the Beaumont seam longwall. The road was 3.5 feet high and 12 feet wide and the canch was 3.5 feet thick. On starting work, at 4.30 pm, deceased commenced to draw timber under the canch so as to allow a shot to be fired, the hole for which had already been drilled but not charged. He knocked out one of the props under the pair of gears, about a foot from the lip of the canch, using a mell standing clear of the canch he attempted to knock out the other prop but was unable to move it; he went under the canch and struck it with some more blows in another direction when a stone 9 feet by 5.5 feet and a foot thick fell upon him, relieved by a parting from above and a slip which crossed the road diagonally. The stone, in falling, appears to have brought some timber with it. The stone had been examined and jowled by the back shift deputy at 3.20 pm. The inspectors reported, in our opinion it was purely accidental and no blame can be attached to any one.

EILLIOTT James - 1905 - 16/09/1905 – Age 39 - Wharncliffe Silkstone Deputy, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He, and other men, had been splicing a haulage rope, and he went to the hauling engine to wind up the slack rope. The engine was heard to be running, but on another deputy getting to it he could not find the deceased. The engine was stopped, and he was then found with his head between the flywheel and another wheel, where there is a space of only six inches, quite dead.

ELCOATE Thomas - 1904 - 08/01/1904 – Age 38 - Skelton Park Filler, Bell Bros. Ltd., North Yorkshire. Filling a tub of ironstone when a small piece burst suddenly off the side and caused a slight wound on his head. Little was thought of it but he died on April 21st.

ELDER Robert - 1906 - 08/08/1906 – Age 28 - Canderrigg, Broomfield No.4 Joiner, James Nimmo and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Explosion of gelignite and gunpowder in a bothy. It was said to have been caused by the bursting of an old electric incandescent lamp which they were testing. 3 killed.

ELIAS John - 1908 - 19/05/1908 – Age 29 - Dowlais Cardiff Shackler, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was walking up the Nine feet dip when he was run over by an empty journey and injured so severely that he died in two days. The speed of the journey was said to have been a walking speed. The road was of ample dimensions and well provided with manholes.

ELIAS Thomas - 1905 - 01/02/1905 – Age 50 - Coed-moeth Haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof discharged timbers in a stall from which he was taking a tram. He was found beneath the tram seriously injured and died 24th July.

ELLACOTT James - 1902 - 21/01/1902 – Age 27 - Avon Level Haulier, Sir Daniel Gooch and others, Glamorgan. While deceased was bringing out two trams of rubbish and riding on the front he struck his head against an irregularity in the roof and fell to the side. Died from injuries 23rd Jan.

ELLERINGTON Benjamin * - 1900 - William Benson and Sons, Montagu, Northumberland.

ELLEY Richard - 1903 - 12/11/1903 – Age 63 - Primrose or Oak Iron Ore Miner, J Shingles and Sons, Gloucester. He was killed by a fall of roof which was liberated by his comrade pulling down a keystone.

ELLIOTT Alfred - 1904 - 19/01/1904 – Age 47 - Barrow Miner, Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Deceased was taking a sprag out when the roof suddenly fell and killed him. The fall came away at two slips one of which could be seen. The place was well timbered and the accident was due to the invisible slip.

ELLIOTT Francis - 1906 - 13/12/1906 – Age 23 - South Leicester Loader, South Leicester Colliery Co., Leicestershire. Fall of roof. Deceased was taking coal down, when the roof fell and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

ELLIOTT George * - 1908 - 11/06/1908 – Lambton, Co.Durham.

ELLIOTT George - 1902 - 10/11/1902 – Age 56 - Park Bricklayer, Low Moor Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Collapse of a scaffold. 3 killed.

ELLIOTT George Urvine - 1904 - 17/08/1904 – Age 47 - Shildon Lodge Packer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. About to build a pack and had drawn a prop, which was in his way, when a large stone, 8 feet long 4 feet 6 inches wide by 2 feet thick, fell upon and fatally crushed him. Several props were displaced by the fall.

ELLIOTT Joseph - 1901 - 24/01/1901 – Age 13 - Hamsterley Pumper, Owners of Hamsterley Colliery, Co.Durham. In bringing a tub out of a place, which he should not have done it being no part of his work, his head was caught between the tub and baulk causing fracture of skull from which he died.

ELLIOTT Robert - 1904 - 20/09/1904 – Age 39 - Scariston Engineman, Sharlow and Scariston Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. On February 1st last, when he was mending a belt to put a bolt in one of the links with a lever and chain when one of the links broke and he fell on to a rail and the blow set up cancer from which he died 2nd Sept.

ELLIOTT Robert - 1908 - 15/12/1908 – Age 36 - Lumley Sixth Stoneman, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was making height, in a new engine plane, and a piece of the caunch in falling struck a 7.5 feet prop. This prop struck him in the face and knocked him down. The back of his head came in contact with a rail which he was lying near to and his skull was fractured.

ELLIOTT Samuel - 1909 - 24/09/1909 – Age 38 - Dale Limestone Quarry, Quarryman, Butterley Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. He was assisting others in arranging a large stone, to be sent over the Quarry face, and was using a hammer to chip a portion of it away, when the stone broke. Deceased in jumping out of the way, landed on a part of the Quarry sloping towards the edge, and, losing his balance, fell to the bottom of the Quarry, a distance of 150 feet.

ELLIOTT Thomas H. - 1906 - 14/10/1906 – Age 46 - Wingate Miner, Owners of Wingate Grange Colliery Ltd., Co.Durham. Explosion of coal dust result of shot firing. 25 killed.

ELLIOTT William - 1908 - 11/11/1908 – Age 68 - Hetton Furnaceman, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When tipping a tub of coals at the furnace, he strangulated an old rupture.

ELLIS A. - 1903 - 18/08/1903 – Age 17 - Robn Hood Pony driver, J and J Charlesworth Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking empty tubs inbye, along a road which had been driven in the rock above the coal, when a piece of stone 24 feet long fell from the side and injured him so severely that he died the same day. The road had not been touched since it was driven two years before.

ELLIS Arthur - 1905 - 20/07/1905 – Age 16 - West Hallam Dataller, West Hallam Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of side while deceased and another were assisting the chargeman to set a bar in the main roadway of the mine. The other man was injured.

ELLIS Arthur - 1908 - 12/09/1908 – Age 42 - West Ardsley Waggon attendant, Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He had two wagons under the screens standing on chocks, the first was being filled. The wagon man lowered two empty wagons behind them but, before doing so, placed a chock on the rail to stop the first one before it touched the second waggon of the two standing under the screens, under the deceased's control, and also told the deceased that he was going to do so. By some means, just as the wagons approached the two standing wagons, the deceased got his head between the buffers and was killed instantly. The buffers did not actually touch each other as the chock placed on the rail stopped the first of the two wagons, being lowered down when they were about 4 inches apart.

ELLIS Edwrad - 1902 - 03/09/1902 – Age 15 - Robin Hood Driver, J and J Charlesworth, Yorkshire. Died 4th September. Found on the side of a horse road fatally injured. He had probably been riding on the tubs and had forgotten to put in the proper number of lockers.

ELLIS James - 1902 - 25/10/1902 – Age 33 - Penmaenmawr, Diorite Quarry Quarryman, Brundrit and Co., Carnarvon. He was pulling, with a pair of tongs, at a machine worked drill which had got stuck in a hole. When the drill got loose the tongs flew and struck him in the groin. He died of peritonitis and internal complications on the 8th November.

ELLIS John - 1904 - 13/07/1904 – Age 25 - Abergorky No.2 Rider, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was riding on a rope hauling 3 trams of coal up a road having a rise of 2 inches per yard when he either slipped or was jerked off the rope and the journey passed over him.

ELLIS John - 1907 - 22/11/1907 – Age 16 - Sharlston Pony driver, New Sharlston Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was taking two full tubs along a road to the main haulage when a large fall from the side killed him.