ELLIS Joseph - 1901 - 19/08/1901 – Age 16 - Bebside Driver, Bebside Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While walking inbye, behind his pony, the latter kicked him in the abdomen causing internal injuries which proved fatal.

ELLIS Joseph - 1903 - 15/11/1903 – Age 35 - West Buckley, Part owner, Joseph Ellis and Co., Flint. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was engaged, with others, relaying the haulage downbrow, on a Sunday, when a link of a chain attached to the haulage rope broke and two tubs ran downbrow crushing deceased at the entrance to a manhole.

ELLIS M. - 1903 - 22/01/1903 – Age 47 - Dark Lane Collier, Mirfield Coal Co., Yorkshire. Died 2nd February. Fall of coal in working place. Cause neglect of timber.

ELLIS Robert Turnbull - 1904 - 01/10/1904 – Age 30 - Heworth Stoneman, Heworth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A stone putter was taking an empty iron stone tub outbye on an engine plane which dipped inbye 11 to 4 inches per yard. He rode on the limbers of the pony but had forgotten to put the cotterill through the bolt, although he had it in his hand. When about 70 yards from a junction the pony stumbled over a roller, and the putter jumped off to catch its head and the limbers became disconnected and the tub ran back. The putter got hold of the tub but was thrown down and the tub ran amain. Deceased had come outbye since the putter left the junction and was probably sitting on a sheave just inside the side road when the tub ran into him and it was found lying on its side a few feet beyond. No "cow" was used with the tub. The Local Inspectors reported in our opinion, if the cotter had been used in the tub it would not have run away. The putter was fined by the magistrates for his neglect.

ELLIS Thomas - 1904 - 21/04/1904 – Age 50 - Roanhead, Iron Ore Top hand, Kennedy Bros. Ltd., Lancashire. Died October 3rd. Part of deceased’s duty was to take the loaded bogie of ore from the shaft top, along a gangway to a hopper from which the ore was put into a washer. The gangway was 25 feet above the ground and fenced except for a part immediately over the hopper where it was intended to erect a shelter. While emptying the bogie of ore into the hopper deceased slipped and fell to the ground breaking his leg. He never resumed work. He was in Ulverston Hospital some time and was then removed to the Workhouse where he exhibited signs of mental derangement and in consequence he was sent to the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum where he died. An inquest was held, the medical officer of the Asylum certifying death was due to "acute melancholia, refusal of food and abscess," but in answer to an inquiry from me he wrote. ‘I have no doubt that this man's death was the result of his accident.’

ELLIS Thomas - 1909 - 11/11/1909 – Age 39 - Coegnant Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries Co. (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; while reopening and enlarging a roadway, a stone fell from the roof, and struck him against the end of a tram. He died instantaneously. Lower seam. Safety lamps.

ELLIS William - 1902 - 11/04/1902 – Age 45 - Byers Green Hewer, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed by a fall of stone from roof working place owing to some slips which were not visible before the fall.

ELLIS William - 1904 - 15/08/1904 – Age 41 - Denaby Main Pumpman, Denaby and Cadeby Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was walking on the engine plane, to his work, when he removed the sprag of a set of full tubs, which he had not noticed in stepping out of the road, and was caught by a set of empty tubs.

ELLIS William D. - 1907 - 11/11/1907 – Age 24 - Dinorwic Slate Quarry Slate getter, Charles G Assheton-Smith, Carnarvon. A stone from another man’s working place fell and struck him on the head. He died on the morrow.

ELLISON David Thomas - 1908 - 07/01/1908 – Age 29 - Oatlands Pitheadman, Moresby Coal Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Fell off gangway.

ELLISON George - 1906 - 10/11/1906 – Age 57 - Murton Shifter, South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The empty set got off the way in a landing and drew out some timber. He was sent to repair the place and whilst doing so some more stone fell and caused severe injuries to him. He died Dec.

ELLISON James - 1908 - 28/01/1908 – Age 48 - Wigan Junction Dataller, Wigan Junction Colliery Co., Wigan, Lancashire. When engaged building a chock on the side of the roadway by an upthrow fault, a piece of listing, off the fault side, fell upon him.

ELLISON Joseph - 1905 - 01/11/1905 – Age 36 - Westhoughton No.6 Fireman, William Woods and Sons, Westhoughton, Lancashire. Fall of roof at face, whilst charging a shot, from between a slip and break, prop wanted. Died 11th July, 1905. (Good roof)

ELLISON Peter - 1907 - 15/12/1907 – Age 64 - Bold Dataller, Collins Green Colliery Co., St Helens, Lancashire. When preparing for work, at the mouth of a gate road, off the haulage road, a fall of side occurred upon him, causing fatal injuries.

ELLOR Samuel - 1901 - 24/01/1901 – Age 50 - Denton, Great Collier, Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from working face. Probably pulling it down using a short rail for a lever. He was standing so near he was unable to get clear of the falling coal.

ELLSWORTH Joseph Benedick - 1903 - 24/02/1903 – Age 18 - Burradon Driver, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. The lad in charge of the bankhead of the selfacting incline was not at work and another lad took his place; in attempting to put a drag into the wheel of the second of two loaded tubs he missed and the tubs ran amain tipping up a safety switch at the bankhead, which was in position for stopping the tubs, they ran away to the bottom of the incline and crushes deceased who drove outbye from that point.

ELLWOOD Isaac - 1906 - 30/04/1906 – Age 33 - Whitburn Hewer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died June 17. On 30th April deceased sprained his side by stepping back quickly to escape some falling top coal, and was off work three weeks, when he resumed work up to June 2nd. He was taken to the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, where he died, and an inquest, after a post-mortem examination, was held and medical evidence was given, that death was due to appendicitis with subsequent peritonitis and septic pneumonia. The jury found that death was due to natural causes.

ELMORE James - 1907 - 27/09/1907 – Age 46 - Hemsworth Byeworker, South Kirkby Featherstone and Hemsworth Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A stretcher supporting the roof which he had set, fell upon him and caused such injuries that he died on the 30th.

ELSE William - 1905 - 23/03/1905 – Age 47 - Middle Park limestone Quarry Quarryman, Bowne and Shaw, Derbyshire. A shot-hole charged with 1.25 lbs. of grain gunpowder was being rammed when it exploded and fatally injured deceased. He died 26th March. A boy was injured.

ELSE William - 1905 - 24/11/1905 – Age 47 - Thurmaston Clay Quarry Quarryman, Thurmaston Brick Co., Leicestershire. A fall of clay was being cleared away when a fall occurred killing deceased.

ELSTONE William - 1907 - 29/01/1907 – Age 40 - Aldwarke Main Collier, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He withdrew a sprag from under some holed coal, in the ordinary way, when a large piece fell and a few smaller pieces from the end, and rolled some distance. Two of these pieces caught him against a prop supporting a bar. He sustained a scalp wound and at the shoulders, and complained of pain about his ribs. Died on February 4th from pneumonia.

ELSWICK Robert * - 1905. Walker, Walker Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

ELSWORTH Joseph * - 1903. Burradon, Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland.

ELVIDGE William - 1906 - 13/01/1906 – Age 39 - Cadeby Main Wagon lowerer, Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. A wagon was being lowered in the road, next to the one at which he was employed. Due warning was given before it was moved and if he had stayed where he was he would have been safe, he however moved and was caught by one of the wheels and fatally injured. There was plenty of room and light, and nothing in the road to trip him up, and the wagon was moving slowly.

ELWARD Richard - 1909 - 03/09/1909 – Age 49 - Wyndham Repairer, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. One of the steps of the stairway, leading to the pitbank, was broken between the day and night shifts, and deceased, while ascending in the dark, missed his footing, overbalanced and fell a distance of 7 feet, and alighted upon his head. It appears a lighted torch was placed near the broken step as a warning.

ELWELL Isaac - 1906 - 20/12/1906 – Age 37 - Coneygre Pikeman, William Elwell, Worcester. Deceased was breaking a way, a narrow place to be driven through the rib in the Thick Coal. In taking down some top coal he bared a slip and a block of coal, 6 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet, came away, exposing a second and parallel slip which was over on the edge of the rib. Neither slip was seen prior to the accident. Deceased and the doggy examined the place a few minutes before.

EMANUEL Thomas - 1901 - 13/02/1901 – Age 26 - Glyncymmer Hauler, Glenavon Rhondda Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road clift, 10 feet x 5 feet x 2 feet thick, while riding on an empty tram probably owing to the horse having knocked out a collar in passing. Wernddu seam.

EMANUEL W. - 1900 - 24/02/1900 – Age 31 - Maindy Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. He was riding on top of a tram of timber and was caught by a broken collar. Died July 23rd.

EMBERTON Frederick - 1903 - 17/04/1903 – Age 22 - Manners Screenman, Manners Colliery Co., Derbyshire. He was crushed between the buffers of two railway waggons while moving them under the screens. He died the same day.

EMBERTON Joseph - 1907 - 15/04/1907 – Age 19 - Leycett Turnsman, Madeley Coal Coke and Brick Co. (1905) Ltd., Staffordshire. A waggoner was letting a journey of eight empty tubs down an incline, on the endless rope haulage way, using a screw clip on the rope as a brake. One of the tubs left the rails and deceased came back to assist in lifting it back on. While the two were standing between the tubs and the endless rope it is said to have jerked and moved about half a yard. This motion caused deceased to be crushed between the edge of the tub and a low bar where there was only a clearance of 4 inches over the tub. No satisfactory explanation of the cause of the sudden movement of the rope could be explained.

EMBLETON James - 1905 - 04/10/1905 – Age 21 - Seaton Burn Putter, Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Deceased, who was sometimes employed in hewing and sometimes in putting was hewing on the day of the accident in a 5-yard bord in the Low Main seam. He came to work at 6 am, with the ordinary putting shift and his shift, when hewing terminated at 2 pm. He worked therefore as a hewer during the shifts of before and back-shift deputies. The place in which he worked was examined by the fore-shift deputy at 4.05 am when he was examining before the entry of the fore-shift hewers, but he did not visit it and two adjoining places occupied by fore-shift hewers during the course of the shift his reason being that he had been called to some derailed tub some distance away. On meeting his marrow, the back-shift deputy, he informed that these places had not been visited and the back-shift deputy went to them first and found deceased under apiece of coal weighing about 17 cwt. which had fallen on him from a small hitch leader crossing the right nook of the place where he had been kyrving. He was last seen alive about an hour before by the putter. The Jury added the following rider 'We recommend that means should be adopted to allow the deputies to carry out strictly the provisions of the Special Rules 43 and 44. The Local Inspectors reported, 'that it was an accident, and that no fault could be found with anyone.’

EMBLETON Joseph - 1901 - 07/05/1901 – Age 66 - Lady Durham Shifter, Lambton Collieries Ltd., Co.Durham. He was renewing timber when a piece of stone dropped from the roof and broke his jaw and right leg. Died 11th.

EMBLING Charles - 1901 - 17/09/1901 – Age 15 - Silverdale No.6 Driver. Butterley Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal from head side of level in 10-ft. seam caught him as he was driving past. Inclination of seam 40 deg.

EMERSON Edwin - 1908 - 09/01/1908 – Age 28 - Ferndale No.8 Shackler, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. The driver of a small hauling engine had pulled a journey of three full trams, by means of the main rope to a point opposite his engine house, where it was necessary to attach a tail rope owing to a change of gradient. Mistaking a shout from the rider, to a lad who was standing on the road, for a signal to pull in the main rope, but before the rider had attached the tail rope to the rear of the journey. As soon as the trams were over the brow they started off towards the pit down a gradient of from three to six inches per yard, over-ran the main rope and broke it off at a return pulley, and crashed into some empty trams on a double parting, 118 yards outbye. Deceased, who was between the empty trams, received injuries from which he died in six days. It appeared that although the haulage road was provided with proper electric signalling appliances, the rider and engineman always did their work by means of verbal signals when the tail was being attached. This was without the knowledge of the manager.

EMERY Frederick - 1908 - 01/03/1908 – Age 31 - Farrington Stoker, Farrington Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. He appears, when starting a Cornish pumping engine, to have allowed the condensed water and steam to escape too rapidly, resulting in his being scalded. The accident occurred laxity in the matter of rules.

EMERY George - 1905 - 08/11/1905 – Age 48 - Bargoed Repairer, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A small stone from the roof fell and struck his head as his comrade was moving a lagging on a roadway where they were repairing. He appears to have taken no notice of it at the time and continued work, but fainted on going to work the next night. He died on the 21st November and the doctor considered that his death was the result of the accident which at first was apparently very trivial.

EMERY Herbert - 1903 - 27/03/1903 – Age 38 - Moston Collier, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in level whilst repairing from a slip and break formerly known. (Average roof)

EMMERSON T. - 1900 - 20/07/1900 – Age 29 - Frodingham Ironstone Quarry Miner, George Dove, Lincolnshire. When recharging a hole with some pressed powder the charge exploded. Some powder in a can close by also became ignited. Died 2nd August.

EMMERSON Thomas - 1909 - 14/09/1909 – Age 39 - Ushaw Moor Hewer, Pease and Partners, Co.Durham. The stone which fell and killed this man had slips on two sides and was false bedded. It had broken off by its own weight. The slips could not have been seen prior to the stone falling. The place had not been worked regularly, if it had been the stone would have been in the goaf and the accident would not have happened.

EMMS William - 1903 - 17/09/1903 – Age 32 - Church Lane Pikeman, Powell and Allmark, Staffordshire. Fall of side (coal) in an opening in the thick coal. A fault ran along one side of the opening, against which a rib of coal, about 6 feet thick, had been left. After the coal had been dropped to the white coal by the firing of three shots on the side opposite the fault and the men had resumed work, the coal left against the fault fell into the opening killing Emms and injuring two others.

ENGLAND Hall - 1906 - 01/05/1906 – Age 16 - Victoria, Lepton Hurrier, James Swift, Yorkshire. When taking a tub along a gate road a fall of stone occurred and killed him. The road was only 4.5 feet wide and props were set 2 feet apart along one side.

ENGLAND J. - 1900 - 06/06/1900 - College sandstone Quarry Engineman, S Seal and Co., Yorkshire. Was coming up ladder after having started a pulsometer, fixed near the bottom of the shaft when the ladder broke and he fell to the bottom.

ENGLAND J. - 1901 - 05/04/1901 – Age 47 - Stanhope Silkstone Shaftsman, Stanhope Silkstone Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Fell from cage when working in the shaft. 2 killed.

ENGLAND Thomas - 1909 - 05/07/1909 – Age 59 - Grassmoor No.4 Stallman, Grassmoor Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was under the gate-end lip cutting the roof towards another stall man working at the front of the ripping. A pot-hole fell out and killed deceased.

ENGLISH James - 1900 - 09/08/1900 – Age 45 - Marley Hill Hewer, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inquest attended. While hewing, with another man, a fall of roof took place from the slips. The place was apparently well timbered and three props were displaced.

ENGLISH William - 1900 - 18/04/1900 – Age 23 - Lathalmond (Quarry) Quarryman, Fife County Council, Fife. Deceased men and four other Quarrymen, who were all more or less injured, were charging a number of holes drilled in whin rock with gelignite and which were to be fired by electricity. One hole was charged and they were engaged charging the second which was 10 feet deep and 2.2 inches diameter and was nearly horizontal. Three cartridges of gelignite together side by side were being pushed into the hole by means of a wooden rod when they exploded. The explosive was somewhat hard and no warming pan was in use. 2 killed.

ENNIS Edward - 1903 - 21/12/1903 – Age 61 - Moor Row, Iron Ore Miner, Executors of TH Dalzell, Cumberland. Deceased and other miners, including his step-son, started work about 6 a.m. in a solid place. About 10 a.m. he complained of feeling unwell and sat down to rest, and shortly afterwards fell over and died. He had been attended for some months by a doctor for heart disease. No inquest was held.

ENOCH David - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 35 - Cambrian No.1 Bratticeman, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

ENSOR George - 1906 - 02/02/1906 – Age 44 - Tinsley Park Collier, Tinsley Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. A pot hole in the roof fell out without warning and caught and killed him. The place was well timbered, and until the accident occurred the pot hole was not visible.

ENTWISTLE Richard - 1907 - 29/06/1907 – Age 38 - Musbury Heights Quarry Quarrier, Grane Quarry Co., Lancashire. Run over by waggon on tramway, riding with one foot on the lever of the break and one foot on the draw bar. Whilst endeavouring to further press down the break lever he fell from the waggon and was killed by the second waggon. Deceased and another man were taking the two waggons along the inclined tramway, they had just passed a gradient of 1 in 12, arrived where it was 1 in 24. Deceased was at the rear end of first wagon, the other man at the rear end of the second waggon, the brake to the former was a lever one, to the second a screw brake. A locomotive will take the waggons down in the future.

ERRINGTON Thomas Agar - 1908 - 20/02/1908 – Age 18 - Washington Glebe Putter, Washington Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Killed in the 1908 explosion (ignition caused by shot firing)

ERSKINE Alexander - 1905 - 27/09/1905 – Age 21 - Glencraig Drawer, Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased was employed by a contractor who worked in a heading rising 1 in 3.5 and a branch. The coal was run to the level by means of a cut through, a wheel being at the top. The places were worked alternately and the branch was being worked at the time of the accident. When the heading was least worked a loaded tub was left standing on level rails and the rope was constantly rubbing on it in moving up and down. A tub was being run from the branch and just as it moved away the tub above ran away down it and crashed into the branch crushing deceased between the collision, caused the rope top slip and both ran down carrying deceased between them, and at a high part of the roadway the runaway tub ran over the other. The constant movement of the rope on the tub had eventually brought it to the steep. It was said the tub was secured by sprags in the wheels bit it was evident that it was insufficiently secured.

ERSKINE Robert T.B. - 1901 - 04/03/1901 – Age 26 - Newburgh Hewer, Radcliffe Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. While ascending with other men he by some means fell out of the cage. There was a proper bar in the cage by which to hold on.

ERVING Miles Jubilee - 1905 - 23/12/1905 – Age 18 - Chopwell Screener, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. The coal for coking, after being pulverised by a disintegrator, is raised by an elevator and poured into the top of a large brick-built hopper capable of holding over 1,000 tons, from the bottom of which it is drawn through 16 openings to load an electrically driven wagon holding 7 tons — the complete charge of one of the coke ovens. The coal in the hopper was sticking and not coming freely to one of the openings and deceased and another young man descended into the hopper, which was then nearly half full, by a ladder from the top and with the illumination of three electric lights were using shovels to trim the coal. Deceased was standing on the coal, and near him to one of the brickwork sides some coal was sticking in a nearly vertical position and about a yard thick; the coal he stood on slipped away and he fell forward, and the coal against the side came away and buried him, and his body was recovered about half an hour afterwards through one of the openings in the bottom. The Jury added a recommendation to their verdict of "accidental death" that some means should be devised to prevent a accident.

ESON Samuel - 1908 - 28/03/1908 – Age 41 - Whittlesea, Clay Quarry Clay getter, Whittlesea Central Brick Co., Warwick. Fall of clay. Another man was injured.

ETHEL Henry - 1908 - 19/07/1908 – Age 50 - Goldney Pump attendant, Warmley Collieries Ltd., Gloucester. Fell from the 80 yard landing where the pump works, he appears to have gone down in the cage without a light to oil the engine no doubt expecting to find his lamp burning all right at the landing but found that it was extinguished. In all probability he fell away when trying, without a light, to get from the cage to the oil, a distance of 16 to 128 inches, presumably he thought that he knew the place so well he would have no difficulty in doing so and that he could then light his lamp.

ETTLE John - 1908 - 18/12/1908 – Age 31 - Himley No. 13 Loader, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. Deceased was loading a tub at the face of a stall in the Heathen Coal, two other men being also in the stall, when, without any warning, three or four settings and laggings were reeled out and a quantity of roof fell, completely burying him. When he was got out he was dead. The floor had been softened by the action of water in the bottom, and this soft bottom probably aided the roof pressure in the reeling out of the timber, although the props were set on foot-lids as a precaution.

ETTLE William Henry - 1908 - 22/02/08 - Goldney Pit Pumpman, Warmley, Gloucester. Fell down pit while descending.

EUSTACE William - 1902 - 04/06/1902 – Age 19 - Fochriw No.2 Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 8 killed.

EVANS A. - 1900 - 18/05/1900 – Age 18 - Aldwarke Main Filler, John Brown and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

EVANS Abraham - 1902 - 05/02/1902 – Age 34 - Llanbradach No.1 Collier, Cardiff Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face coal, 2.25 feet by 15 inches by 19 inches thick. It was thrown out by a heavy pounce. The face was said to have been vertical and it was not thought necessary to sprag it. Died July 31st. Nine feet seam.

EVANS Albert - 1905 - 21/06/1905 – Age 26 - National Shackler, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was standing between the roads of a double parting while the empty journey of 24 trams was drawn in. As a tram, having six 9 feet rails in it, approached him, it got derailed; one of the rails shot forward, struck him on the side of the head and killed him. I cannot understand the rail being hurled with such force, as the journey was only going at a walking pace.

EVANS Andrew - 1902 - 22/05/1902 – Age 39 - Mardy No.1 Roadsman, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. A journey of trams was standing on a parting and as the road dropped outwards, about 4 inches per yard, a chain fastened to an arm was used to hold the journey. At the request of a haulier deceased tried but failed to unfasten the chain when the journey was pulled in. The arm was pulled out and the collar lags and some rubbish fell on deceased. He died on October 10th from peritonitis and pneumonia. Bute seam.

EVANS Arthur - 1907 - 19/12/1907 – Age 23 - Elliot Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face. Apparently the fall occurred directly upon his returning to the place after having had his lunch. The roof is not good in this place and he was working on the face slip with the lower side leading. He worked on day wages for his brother. It is intended to experiment with some of these working places to see whether some safer method of working for this seam cannot be arrived at as several accidents have occurred under the present method.

EVANS Benjamin - 1908 - 10/02/1908 – Age 28 - Cwmcynon Ripper, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road rock, 9 feet by 4.5 feet by 20 inches thick, fell on them as they were trying to bar it down. How they got into the position they were found in no one knew, but it is probable that they failed to get the stone down, and were passing under it to work at the other end when it fell. Four feet seam. 2 killed.

EVANS Benjamin – 1908 – 18/05/1908 – Age 50 – Aber Repairer, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; an old trial level, used as a water course, was being reopened and enlarged, when a quantity of alluvial ground burst away the face supports and suffocated the men before they could be recovered. The depth from the surface was probably 12 yards to the face of the level. Naked lights. 2 killed.

EVANS Charles – 1903 – 18/03/1903 – Age 24 – Blaina Lower Deep Collier, J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A piece of coal on a back slip, which he was getting down, fell suddenly and crushed him against a post.

EVANS Charles – 1905 – 17/11/1905 – Age 33 – Llanhilleth Master haulier, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Crushed by an empty tram by the side of which he was walking on the engine plane. It was only going at a walking pace and he was either knocked down by it or fell under it. The road was roomy, being 7 feet high and 9 feet wide, with double rails laid in it.

EVANS Charles – 1907 – 04/10/1907 – Age 17 – New Hucknall No.3 Horse driver, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of side on a roadway. Deceased was lifting an empty tub on to the rails when the side rolled over and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

EVANS Charles – 1909 – 09/10/1909 – Age 39 – Darbishire’s, Diorite Quarry Sledger, Darbishire’s Ltd., Carnarvon. He was carried over the tip with a waggon when tipping rubbish.

EVANS D.J. – 1905 – 03/03/1905 – Age 39 – Fochriw No.2 Repairer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. At face, cliff, 32 feet by 4.4 feet by 26 inches thick, fell from between two slants which ran up through the roof until they joined. The roof is said to have been supported by four props which were discharged by the fall. Ras Las seam.

EVANS Daniel – 1904 – 17/03/1904 – Age 14 – Tillery, Vivians Collier’s boy, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. His butty, a collier named Lewis, was cutting bottom knocked out but does not appear to have tested the roof immediately before doing so the result being that a stone fell and was tilted on to the boy by the falling post.

EVANS Daniel - 1909 - 22/04/1909 – Age 39 - Nantgwyn Haulier, Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was about to bring a tram of coal down a road, dipping 2 inches per yard, when his horse bolted. He jumped on the "gun", but was thrown off and run over at a junction. The horse was given a bad character and has since been sent out of the pit.

EVANS Daniel J. - 1902 - 14/07/1902 – Age 18 - Caenewydd Collier, Caenewydd Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, about 10 cwt. of coal followed by rubbish suddenly fell and struck deceased on the head while holing. No sprag had been set.

EVANS David - 1900 - 17/05/1900 – Age 16 - Albion Rope changer, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by journey having probably fallen in an attempting to jump on while the trams were in motion. Riding was not allowed.

EVANS David - 1900 - 26/09/1900 – Age 34 - Norwood, Clay Quarry Craneman, HL Pattinson, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased, who was in charge of a travelling crane, apparently lost control over it with the result that it overshot the stop block and fell bodily into the Quarry carrying him with it.

EVANS David - 1900 - 31/10/1900 – Age 16 - Abercanaid Road cleaner, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead in headway having been run over by an empty journey.

EVANS David - 1902 - 04/06/1902 – Age 17 - Fochriw No.2 Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 8 killed.

EVANS David - 1903 - 05/02/1903 – Age 18 - Ferndale No.2 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 8.25 feet by 3 feet by 12 inches thick fell from a smooth and a slant on one side while deceased was wedging down top coal. It was unsupported. Bute seam.

EVANS David - 1903 - 29/07/1903 – Age 26 - Cilely Collier, JS Blindell and Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on face coal rock and cliff, 12 feet by 10 feet by 5 feet thick, crushed four props out and buried deceased who was shovelling coal along the face. There was a smooth slip each side of the fall and a glassy bed above. Red seam.

EVANS David - 1904 - 14/11/1904 – Age 27 - Maesteg Deep Repairer, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fatally injured on main deep. 4 killed.

EVANS David - 1905 - 12/09/1905 – Age 40 - Onllwyn Hardgroundman, Sir Griffith Thomas, Glamorgan. While about to fire two shots in the face of a stone drift, one shot exploded before he lit the second, and he was killed by the flying debris.

EVANS David - 1905 - 15/10/1905 – Age 33 - Ebbw Vale Griffin No.3 Timberman, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A fireman, who was knocking up a post struck him on the head with a hammer, inflicting a cut about an inch long. He worked 11 days after but subsequently become ill, and died on the 22nd December, it is alleged, a result of the accident.

EVANS David - 1906 - 06/12/1906 – Age 24 - Ponthenry Stone headingman, Ponthenry Colliery Ltd., Carmarthen. A shot hole, charged with Saxonite, exploded while the men were ramming the charge home with an iron bar. No detonator had been placed in the hole. The weather being frosty the explosive could not have been in a fit state for use.

EVANS David - 1906 - 13/04/1906 – Age 31 - Ferndale No.5 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face, coal, 4 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet 10 inches thick. A heavy ‘pounce’ which in all probability loosened the coal, was loosened before the fall. Deceased had holed 6 or 8 inches under the coal and had not set sprags against it. Five-feet seam.

EVANS David - 1908 - 29/07/1908 – Age 50 - Llest No.2 Collier, Jonathan Maddox, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road while enlarging a coal side of a double road stall which was being worked away to enlarge the roadway by 4 feet, so as to convert it into an incline. Above the coal is an irregular bed of shale, and this stratum was left unsupported after the coal had been withdrawn from beneath it. It had been ripped in the old part of the roadway hence it overhung in the new. While Evans was clearing away a portion of this bed which had been taken down, the overhanging stratum fell and so injured him that he died on September 25th, 1908. No.2 Rhondda Seam. Naked lights.

EVANS David John (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.

EVANS David John - 1901 - 12/06/1901 – Age 20 - Ebbw Vale, Waun Llwud Collier, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof in his working place, apparently from the marks on the Stone he had previously tried to wedge down and failing to do so did not trouble to take the precaution of securing it.

EVANS David John - 1906 - 14/08/1906 – Age 29 - Cambrian No.1 Collier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 10 feet by 4 feet by 12 inches thick, it fell as he was walking along his road. It was quite unsupported. Six feet seam.

EVANS David John - 1909 - 03/03/1909 – Age 25 - Llwynypia No.1 Collier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face, cliff, 8 feet by 3 feet by 15 inches thick, fell on deceased as he and his partner were preparing to sort props under it. They had previously failed to get it down. Five feet seam.

EVANS David William - 1901 - 10/09/1901 – Age 31 - Llanbradradach No.2 Repairer, Cardiff Steam Coal Collieries Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion formed the subject of special report by Mr. J. S. Martin. Cd885. 8 killed. some injured.

EVANS David. - 1902 - 02/10/1902 – Age 45 - Himley No. 17 Odd man, Earl of Dudley, Staffordshire. A large piece of coal slipped down shaft and knocked a bar out which fell on Evans, the weight of the coal being also on him.

EVANS Ebenezer - 1902 - 05/09/1902 – Age 19 - Cambrian No.2 Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. The deceased were riding out on a journey of coal when the last tram but one knocked a collar out and caused two others to be discharged. The roof thus liberated buried them. The height under the collar was only 4 feet 11 inches. It was thought that an arm, which was a good deal decayed, broke and allowed the collar to drop. Red seam. 2 killed.

EVANS Edgar - 1904 - 17/06/1904 – Age 18 - International Rider, International Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While riding, a shackle broke and deceased was thrown off by the end trams springing back.

EVANS Edmund - 1909 - 14/10/1909 – Age 49 - Nantwen Collier, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face rock, 5 feet by 6 feet 6 inches by 8 inches thick, discharged one post and fell on both men. Their assistant was cutting an additional post at the time. Brithdir seam. 2 killed.

EVANS Edward - 1902 - 21/03/1902 – Age 33 - Elliot Charge haulier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. A horse, which he was taking from the stables into the workings, turned into the wrong road and up or into which a journey or set of trams was being drawn from the main level. In saving the horse he was himself caught and fatally injured.

EVANS Edward - 1909 - 18/11/1909 – Age 54 - Bute Labourer, Marquis of Bute, Glamorgan. Deceased, when throwing a stone into the gob, struck his finger against the pack wall. Blood poisoning set in and he died on December 17th.

EVANS Edward - 1909 - 25/10/1909 – Age 18 - Aberbaiden Collier, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face; a bell-shaped stone, 6 feet, by 4 feet, by 10 inches in thickness in shale ground, fell from the sandstone rock roof and so seriously injured him that he died in 12 hours time. It appears that an attempt had been made to bar the stone down but it would not yield to the bar. The men then worked away at the coal face and exposed a larger area of the stone which ultimately collapsed. Rock Fawr Seam. Naked lights.

EVANS Elias - 1901 - 08/01/1901 – Age 19 - Fochriw No.1 Engineman, Guest Keen and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was caught in the coils of a rope and carried round the drum while trying to adjust the rope when the engine was in motion.

EVANS Enoch - 1907 - 14/02/1907 – Age 63 - Ferndale No.7 Roadsman, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was waiting for the shift to end to cut some bottom on a dip on which there were two roads. A journey of full trams was being drawn up each road, one 600 yards in advance of the other. A repairer, standing about 10 yards from deceased, heard one journey approaching, and called to deceased who replied ‘all right.’ As the journey passed the repairer, he heard what he thought was a mandrill rattling under the trains and stopped it. He then discovered deceased under the fifth tram, quite dead. The dip was 13 feet wide and deceased had been standing by a manhole. How he got under the trams no one knows.

EVANS Evan - 1900 - 12/03/1900 – Age 27 - Navigation Haulier, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. His horse reared and struck him on his side. Died next day.

EVANS Evan - 1901 - 15/05/1901 – Age 33 - Penrikyber Haulier, Penrikyber Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side on road while opening a door 5.5 feet by 2 feet by 20 inches thick in face of rippings. It was unsupported. Six feet seam.

EVANS Evan - 1904 - 23/04/1904 – Age 20 - Cwm Haulier, Crawshay Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. On road cliff, 4 feet by 15 inches by 12 inches thick, fell on deceased as he was stooping down to couple two full trams on a heading. Seven feet seam.

EVANS Evan - 1905 - 10/03/1905 – Age 37 - Cambrian No.1 Labourer, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was the subject of a Special Report by FA Gray. 33 killed.

EVANS Evan - 1905 - 27/03/1905 – Age 54 - Aberpergwm Collier, Morgan S Williams, Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face between last pair of timbers and face. A piece of roof coal, 3 feet x 3 feet x 18 inches thick, fell from between slips close to a temporary prop, which it was thought would have secured it. 18 feet seam.

EVANS Evan - 1906 - 11/05/1906 – Age 60 - Blaina Griffin No.2 Overman, John Lancaster and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Deceased was run over by a journey of 19 trams on its way to the shaft. The rider had seen him a minute or so before on the double parting. Whether deceased lost his light and got confuse, or fell, there was no evidence to show.

EVANS Evan - 1907 - 06/12/1907 – Age 27 - Llwynypia No.2 Assistant repairer, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and a repairer were ripping 3 feet of cliff roof on a cross heading, and standing double timbers, the last pair of which was 3 to 4 feet from the rippings at the time of accident. The heading inside of them was double timbered, but had become too low. For some reason deceased went a few yards in along the heading, probably to see what they had to rip on the following day, when a stone from the roof fell, and struck him on the leg. This stone would have been taken down in the course of repairs had the accident not occurred. He was admitted to the Cardiff Infirmary on the day of the accident, the leg was amputated on January 13th, and lie died on March 15th, 1908.

EVANS Evan H. - 1902 - 03/09/1902 – Age 25 - McLaren Collier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp in the Yard Vein seam. Caused by working near to or in a large accumulation of gas. 16 killed.

EVANS F. - 1900 - 02/02/1900 – Age 41 - Manvers Main Collier, Manvers Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

EVANS George - 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.

EVANS George - 1903 - 16/03/1903 – Age 31 - Mardy Engineman, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was the driver of a travelling steam crane used for tipping trams of rubbish. When picking up a heavy tram of rubbish, the crane with its trolley, overbalanced and fell down the rubbish tip. Two clamps are said to have been used to fasten the trolley to the rails. It appears doubtful to me whether the clamps were fixed or not, a chain supplied as an additional safeguard, certainly was not. Deceased died on 5th April.

EVANS George - 1903 - 24/07/1903 – Age 63 - Cefn, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Henry Dennis, Denbigh. He somehow fell off a wall from which he was tipping to fill a disused part of the Quarry. Instantly killed.

EVANS George - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 26 - National No.2 Collier, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. New Houses, Wattstown buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday. Not in the newspaper reports of the disaster on 15th July but appear in the reports of the funerals in the newspapers on 22nd July 1905 and in the South Wales Echo. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

EVANS George - 1907 - 10/12/1907 – Age 55 - Nine Mile Point Roadsman, Burnyeat Brown and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face in the Black Vein, on a road where he was sent to repair the rails. It fell, as he was in a stooping position, from between two slants which were it seems previously unseen. This, with former accidents, rather points to the necessity of these roads being double timbered instead of being secured by props at the side.

EVANS John - 1900 - 01/09/1900 – Age 28 - Llysfaen & Pentregwyddel limestone Quarryman, Kneeshaw Lupton and Co., Carnarvon. While he was engaged, with other men, on a ledge 7 feet wide removing the overburden which was about 6 feet deep a portion fell unexpectedly and struck him so that he was precipitated to the bottom of the Quarry a depth of 120 yards. Instantly killed. Another man had his leg broken by the fall of earth. The men had ropes at the bend but did not think it necessary to use them.

EVANS Gomer - 1908 - 04/06/1908 – Age 37 - Ferndale No. 8 Haulier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was, with his horse, taking a tram of coal out of a stall, when it got off the rails at the mouth. He and two colliers tried to lift it on with the aid of a pull from the horse. The horse, however, refused to pull, so deceased left the tram and went towards the horse, which then pulled vigorously. The tram got on the rails at the pointers and the horse would not stop. Deceased was walking between it and the tram when his foot caught and he fell and was run over. He died on November 18.

EVANS Griffith - 1900 - 25/11/1900 – Age 55 - Oakeley slate Slate getter, Oakeley Slate Quarries Co. Ltd., Merioneth. Unexpected fall of a stone, more than a ton in weight, from the roof of a new chamber at a point where it was only 5 feet high. He died in a few hours. His mate also received slight injuries.

EVANS Griffith D. - 1900 - 20/04/1900 – Age 61 - Oakeley slate Slate getter, Oakeley Slate Quarries Co. Ltd., Merioneth. Fall of several tons of slate rock from the working face. Some caught deceased and inflicted injuries from which he died on the 27th. The rock had no doubt been shaken by a previous blast but deceased and his mate had examined it and considered it safe.

EVANS Gwilym 1903 12/06/1903 18 Llwynypia No.3 Collier Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road cliff, 9 feet by 6.5 feet by 2 feet thick, it fell on the deceased as he was passing out towards the shaft. Two collars were found to have broken and liberated the roof. No.3 Rhondda seam.

EVANS Henry - 1905 - 16/08/1905 – Age 33 - Wood Farm Shunter, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed between buffers of waggons while holding prop to enable locomotive to push the waggons into siding. Died 5th September.

EVANS Hopkin - 1901 - 25/03/1901 – Age 45 - Dinas Old Level Timberman, Perch and Co., Glamorgan. Fatally burned by an explosion of firedamp in an old level which was being re-opened. They were clearing a large fall of roof, 700 yards inbye of the mouth. The gas ignited at the naked light of one of the men whilst he was examining the place. No inspection was made before the men entered in accordance with General Rule IV. 4 killed.

EVANS Howell - 1902 - 12/02/1902 – Age 18 - Mardy No.3 Collier, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 2.5 feet by 1.25 feet by 8 inches thick, it fell from a height of 13 feet. The seam was disturbed at that point by an overlap. Bute seam.

EVANS Hugh - 1904 - 28/01/1904 – Age 45 - Pen-yr-orsedd, Slate Quarry Labourer, Pen-yr-orsedd Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., Carnarvon. A waggon fell off an aerial incline on to  him and killed him on the spot. It is probable that the cotterell of a pulley either broke or worked loose.

EVANS Hugh - 1906 - 26/10/1906 – Age 29 - Lower Duffryn Rider, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was bringing out four trams of rubbish, drawn by a rope attached to a small portable engine. About 15 yards from the engine, the main rope ought to have been detached and the trams run into the parting, drawing the tail rope after them. It had been agreed that the trams were not to be stopped until the rider signalled. This he appears not to have done with the result that the trams were not stopped until opposite the engine, when the main rope caused the front tram to cant up and crush deceased against the timber. My impression was that he was trying to detach the rope without stopping.

EVANS Idris - 1909 - 08/12/1909 – Age 21 - Ferndale No.3 Collier, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 3 feet by 1.5 feet by 8 inches, part of the rippings fell and fractured his skull. Nine feet seam.

EVANS Isaac - 1902 - 03/06/1902 – Age 47 - Newton, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell off ledge to a depth of 75 feet, he and others were barring down stones which had been loosened by a shot. Ropes ought to have been used.

EVANS Isaac - 1905 - 07/03/1905 – Age 18 - Dowlais Cardiff Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a journey of trams on which he was illegally riding.

EVANS J. - 1900 - 07/11/1900 – Age 27 - Allerton Bywater Collier, Silkstone and Haigh Moor Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

EVANS James - 1901 - 03/06/1901 – Age 32 - Cymmer, Upper Collier, Insoles Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 5 feet by 8.25 feet by 10 inches thick, part of a bell fell while deceased was setting a prop under it. Hafod seam.

EVANS James - 1903 - 16/11/1903 – Age 20 - Glyncastle Rider, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell off journey of full trams on main dip and was run over.

EVANS James - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 29 - National No.2 Sinker, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

EVANS James - 1907 - 07/10/1907 – Age 34 - Sandwell Park Loader, Sandwell Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased was taking a loaded tub, with gross weight of about a ton, down a road dipping 1 in 9, he being in front with his back against it. The tub carried a locker in each of its four wheels. It overpowered him and drove him before it. Twenty eight yards from the starting point one of the lockers fell out, deceased apparently slipped and fell in front of the tub which crushed him very severely causing internal injuries which resulted fatally about two hours afterwards. This is a type of accident which is constantly occurring where the dangerous practice of going in front of tubs on inclined roads is permitted.

EVANS James - 1907 - 14/03/1907 – Age 41 - Aberbaiden Collier, Baldwins Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face. While about to commence work at the face, after an interval for food, a piece of sandstone rock roof fell from between two joints which had not previously been detected. The stone measured 9 feet long an average width of 2 feet 4 inches and 2 feet 4 inches in thickness. Water was pouring out from the fissures so much that a galvanised sheet had been fixed over the roadway to convey the water to one side. Props were set on either side of the roadway, and the stone came down from between them. Rock fall. Naked lights.

EVANS James – 1907 – 21/06/1907 – Age 55 – Hamstead Stallman, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased and another man were working in a small opening in the Thick coal seam, about 6 feet in height, when there was a heavy bump and the top coal, about 3 feet 6 inches thick and a tough shale 8 inches thick fell all over the opening, breaking over the timbers. Deceased was completely buried and it took nearly two hours to recover the body. He had tapped the top coal shortly before the accident. The undermanager visited the place at 8 am and remarked upon its good condition.

EVANS James – 1909 – 11/09/1909 – Age 33 – Morlais Castle Limestone Quarry, Quarryman, Nettlefolds, Glamorgan. Deceased and another man were boring a hole in a stone when a loose stone, he was leaning his back against, slipped out and threw him to the ground. This was followed by another it had supported, which fell on deceased.

EVANS Jenkin – 1900 – 20/08/1900 – Age 22 – Bwllfa No.2 Collier, Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. He had been holing under a face slip of coal which had been spragged an hour previously. A pounce occurred knocking out the sprag. He was in a sitting position when the coal, 4.5 feet x 1.25 feet x 2 feet 10 inches thick fell on him. Seven feet seam.

EVANS Job – 1901 – 18/02/1901 – Age 23 – Brynhenllys Collier, Brynhenllys Colliery Co., Brecon. Fall of roof at face, a stone fell on his shoulder, blood poisoning supervened and he died a week later. Middle vein.

EVANS John – 1900 – 07/02/1900 – Age 35 – Wynnstay Collier, Wynnstay Collieries Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were cutting the coal through to an airway and were trying to get a piece of coal down when the roof came crashing down capping the props and sprags and burying the deceased.

EVANS John – 1900 – 09/05/1900 – Age 30 – Navigation Repairer, Nixons Navigation Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on the road while about to prop it, after it was seen to be ‘on the move’ fall 14 feet x 10 feet x 4 to 5.5 feet thick. Six feet seam. 2 killed.

EVANS John – 1900 – 22/06/1900 – Age 29 – Glyncastle Rider, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell off front of journey and crushed to death while riding round a curve on road, speed 3 miles per hour.