HORTON Thomas - 1903 - 03/07/1903 – Age 59 - Hedley Stone teemer, South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Died from syncope while following his employment.

HOSKEN or HOSKIN Stephen or George - 1900 - 15/02/1900 – Age 24 Varteg Hill Collier, J Vipond and Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He was found directly under a stone, which had been brought down by a shot. It is probable that he lighted the squib instead of the match and that the shot went off before he could get away. Gunpowder and a squib were used. Squibs are a dangerous means of firing shots.

HOSKIN Albert - 1905 - 18/07/1905 – Age 43 - Letty Shenkin Wireman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Burned severely on both hands by getting them in contact with the high tension terminals of 160-horse power hauling motor.

HOSKINSON Harold Arthur - 1904 - 10/02/1904 – Age 15 - New Hucknall Bank boy, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Derbyshire. While pushing a loaded tub over the iron plates on the bank deceased slipped down and caught his jaw and neck on the edge of the tub. This gave rise to laryngitis which caused his death two days later.

HOSKINSON William Henry - 1905 - 12/09/1905 – Age 41 - Newstead Dayman, Newstead Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. The deceased men were working at the gate end when a heavy fall of roof occurred. A slip or dislocation of the roof had been previously seen but no extra timber had been set to provide against the danger of such a slip. 2 killed.

HOSTLER David - 1903 - 30/04/1903 – Age 27 - Carfin No.7 Miner, William Dixon Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

HOTCHKISS Cornelius - 1903 - 10/09/1903 – Age 38 - Carrohill Miner, Carron Co., Stirling. Deceased had fired a cut shot close to one side of his place and immediately after was picking some dirt from amongst the fallen coal when a mass of sandstone, relieved by the shot, fell upon him killing him almost instantaneously.

HOTCHKISS Thomas - 1902 - 04/07/1902 – Age 46 - Tannochside No.2 Bottomer, Archibald Russell, Lanarkshire. He and another bottomer failed to close the gate at the mid working before signalling away the cage and in pushing back the empty hutch he fell into the open shaft. The prescribed indicator for this cage was not in the engine house.

HOUGH James - 1902 - 12/04/1902 – Age 36 - Townley Fireman, Brooks and Pickup, Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between two slips known to be there, whilst taking out a prop with a short shafted hammer. Apparently he made no examination before knocking the prop. The props interfered with the filling of a tub. He ought to have set another prop before disturbing the one carrying the weight of the roof between the two slips. (Good roof)

HOUGH John - 1900 - 13/08/1900 – Age 18 - Leycett Harrison and Woodhouse Stoker, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. While assisting to move a pit cage on a trolley, on pit bank, the cage fell over and crushed him.

HOUGH Thomas - 1908 - 08/04/1908 – Age 40 - Atherton No.1 Dataller, Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. On an abandoned haulage road, whilst drawing an iron girder, the wood bar to which chain of gablock attached gave way, two girders and another bar collapsed, the men were buried under a huge fall. Middle props ought to have been set, the roof was broken. (Average roof.) 2 killed.

HOUGHTON Edward - 1900 - 28/06/1900 – Age 37 - Sutton Heath Daywageman, Sutton Heath & Lea Green Collieries Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made. He was taking a portion of the side off a shunt and taking some of the packing out at the side of the road when some rock fell from the roof above him from old breaks and cracks. He ought to have put up some props when taking away the supporting pack.

HOUGHTON George - 1900 - 11/02/1900 – Age 68 - Hewlett No.2 Arley Dataller, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway whilst repairing from between the joint and break. Died 11th February. (Bad roof)

HOUGHTON George - 1903 - 23/04/1903 – Age 47 - North Stafford Brick Works marl Quarry Labourer, North Staffordshire. Brick and Tile Co. Ltd., Stafford. Fall of ground barred down by a fellow workman from a face 10 feet high.

HOUGHTON R. - 1900 - 24/02/1900 – Age 22 - Caerau Haulier, Norths Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 20 feet x 18 feet x 4 to 6 feet thick, a 'framing’ and three pairs of timbers discharged. Six feet seam.

HOUGHTON T. - 1901 - 12/03/1901 – Age 23 - Orgreave Labourer, Rothervale Colliery Co., Yorkshire. Crushed by wagons during shunting operations at night.

HOUGHTON William - 1901 - 30/09/1901 – Age 56 - Mosley Common Collier, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fall of roof in roadway of working place from between two pronounced slips on each side, known to be there, and from a third slip which had not been seen. Additional support was clearly required. (Average roof).

HOULT John - 1909 - 10/08/1909 – Age 33 - Cossall Dayman, Cossall Colliery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. Deceased was either drawing timber or preparing to withdraw timber from a waste when a fall of roof killed him. The ringer and chain were found near him but the chain was not round the prop.

HOUSIE Matthew - 1902 - 11/08/1902 – Age 32 - Bent No.3 Miner, Bent Colliery Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

HOUSLEY Robert - 1907 - 20/11/1907 – Age 43 - Selston Night chargeman, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. Deceased and two other men were replacing the sump-boards, after water had been drawn from the sump, when one of the baulks of timber swung across the shaft and fatally injured him. He died the same day.

HOUSTON Matthew - 1908 - 23/10/1908 – Age 44 - Calderwood Castle Fireman, J and J Mulvey, Lanarkshire. When making a lye in the Dook a stone, which he was taking from the side, knocked out a prop and a stone from the roof fell on him.

HOUSTON William – 1909 – 05/10/1909 – Age 30 – Garteside Reddsman, Flemington Coal Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. He was sent by the overman to redd a fall in airway, when his naked light ignited gas. Place had not been previously inspected.

HOWARD Abraham – 1905 – 05/08/1905 – Age 63 – Chesterton Forge Packer, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of roof (clod) in a thirling in the Red Shag Ironstone, from a slip.

HOWARD David James – 1900 – 25/05/1900 – Age 12 – Coed-y-Moeth Collier’s boy, Powells Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Fall of roof, about 45 yards from the face of his stall, where it is thought he and his brother, with whom he worked, were plundering the pillar.

HOWARD Sydney – 1900 – 04/07/1900 – Age 19 – Springwood Incline man, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. While travelling with the front tub of a train of 14 loaded tubs up an engine plane the draw-bar of the second tub broke. The torsion of the rope being relieved of 13 tubs and suddenly drew forward the one tub and threw deceased down and passed over him. He died on the way to the hospital.

HOWARTH Albert – 1908 – 12/12/1908 – Age 28 – Greens Moor Quarry Quarrier, Executors of R Siddall, Lancashire. Large stone, 3.5 tons, being raised by a crane, but a link in the chain broke, the stone fell back and caught Howarth. Flaw in the link. Old chain not annealed.

HOWARTH H. – 1903 – 23/01/1903 – Age 28 – Prince of Wales Collier, John Rhodes, Yorkshire. Died 1st February. The roof of the working place began to settle and Howarth was making his escape by the gateroad when a large piece of the side fell and fatally injured him. Another man was severely injured.

HOWARTH Israel – 1904 – 26/11/1904 – Age 51 – Ashton Field Screener, Earl of Elmesmere, Lancashire. Whilst standing on a waggon, being filled from the screen, a lump of coal hit him on the lower part of the stomach. Died 29th November.

HOWARTH James – 1908 – 14/10/1908 – Age 45 – Towneley Collier, Brooks and Brooks, Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, loose corner, neglecting to sprag. (Died 19th October)

HOWARTH John – 1901 – 08/07/1901 – Age 34 – Stoneclough Manager, Stoneclough Coal Co., Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp, probably lit at a candle while endeavouring to remove a large accumulation of firedamp by batting disturbing it by waving their waistcoats and a piece of brattice cloth. Inadequate ventilation for want of sufficient ventilating power and by reason of airways being blocked.

HOWARTH John - 1904 - 21/07/1904 – Age 23 - Heyfield Wigan Four Feet Drawer, West Leigh Colliery Co. Ltd., Lancashire. At the face of working place. He had just filled a tub when a piece of rock burst from the roof canting out two props, fall 8 feet by 8 feet. Timbering distance 5 feet, because of liability of rock to shale off. This case shows necessity of having a distance and observing it. The props were 3 feet 10 inches from the face, had one more prop been up it would probably have saved his life. (Good roof)

HOWARTH John Edward - 1905 - 10/05/1905 – Age 41 - Denton Engineman, Denton Colliery Co. Ltd., Denton, Lancashire. Crushed by cog wheels of hauling engine. When engine on centre he went through the fence with steam on, he got hold of the fly-wheel, to pull it round, when the wheel started off quickly owing to steam being on. He slipped, falling between the wheels.

HOWCROFT Charles - 1906 - 24/07/1906 – Age 34 - Woolley Collier, Fountain and Burnley Ltd., Yorkshire. These men were ripping a new level and walling one at each side of the road. One was using a pick and the other wedging when suddenly the roof fell out of a very large pot-hole and killed them both on the spot. 2 killed.

HOWCROFT Moses - 1903 - 28/01/1903 – Age 52 - East Hetton Kirver, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Commenced to kirve when a stone fell from the roof at a slip and killed him.

HOWDEN John - 1906 - 25/12/1906 – Age 60 - Broomrigg No.3 Miner, Banknock Coal Co. Ltd., Stirling. Fall of roof in working place, which was not propped as required by the rules.

HOWE Edward - 1904 - 01/07/1904 – Age 50 - Linby Dataller, Linby Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof while deceased was removing a bar supporting a brattice sheet. He died in the mine.

HOWE J.T. - 1902 - 09/06/1902 – Age 16 - Tudhoe Putter, Weardale Steel Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. A full tub was off the way and after it had been lifted on he was in the act of putting his pony towards the tub, which was in motion, and his head was caught between the tub and prop. Died on the 15th.

HOWE James - 1900 - 27/04/1900 – Age 27 - Aberaman Collier, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face cliff, 25 feet x 7 feet x 21 inches thick, it fell discharging, it was said, 5 or 6 props. Nine feet seam.

HOWE James - 1901 - 13/01/1901 – Age 45 - Lingard Lane Hanger on, Bredley Colliery Co., Cheshire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was riding on a water tub, up the haulage brow, when he got fatally injured by being crushed under a girder which had got too low for a man to ride safely on a tub. He to succumbed to injuries received 9th February.

HOWE Robert - 1902 - 10/07/1902 – Age 41 - North Hetton Keeker, North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Alleged to have died from blood poisoning, the result of his leg having been injured by hauling rope on the surface but at the inquest there was no evidence of his having been injured at all.

HOWE Samuel - 1902 - 26/08/1902 – Age 56 - Bradwell Dale, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, Bradwell Parish Council, Derbyshire. Having fired a shot the deceased went within 15 minutes to recharge the hole and directly he poured the loose gunpowder into the hole it exploded and caused deceased to fall down the Quarry face. Died 28th August.

HOWELL Charles - 1904 - 21/12/1904 – Age 62 - Clandown Repairer, Clandown Colliery Co. Ltd., Somerset. While engaged as road man near the top of the engine plane the rope slipped off the sheaves, for carrying it round a curve and struck him causing injuries from which he died on the 7th January, 1905.

HOWELL Gersom - 1909 - 27/10/1909 – Age 43 - Main No.1 Collier, Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road; the deceased worked alone on the day of the accident and it is not certain whether the fall of loose ground came down accidentally, or whether he was engaged in ripping it down. There were timber supports at the place but they had collapsed. The colliery was not at work that day but the deceased had obtained permission to enter and repair his roadway. Victoria Seam. Safety lamps.

HOWELL James - 1901 - 13/06/1901 – Age 32 - South Rhondda Haulier, South Rhondda Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Found dead under a water tram having apparently fallen off and had been run over.

HOWELL John - 1907 - 19/08/1907 – Age 50 - Trafford Collier, Crompton and Shawcross, Lancashire. When taking an empty tub along his drawing road a fall of roof occurred, between two breaks, capping two bars and fatally injuring deceased.

HOWELL Joseph - 1908 - 04/03/1908 – Age 35 - Hamstead Deputy, Hamstead Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Underground fire. 25 killed.

HOWELL Robert - 1901 - 09/08/1901 – Age 54 - Podmore Hall, Minnie Crutter, Midland Coal Coke and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Fall of coal forming the roof of an entrance or short road to an old staple pit in the Two Row seam, while the place was being enlarged and timbered. The coal which fell was liberated by three slips.

HOWELL Thomas - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 15 - National No.2 Collier boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed.

HOWELL W. - 1900 - 09/03/1900 – Age 27 - Morfa Collier, Vivian and Sons, Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff ,6.5 feet x 2 feet x 2 feet thick, fell between two pairs of timbers while sitting down waiting for his lamp to be returned to him by the haulier to whom he had lent it. Died next day. Cribbwr seam.

HOWELLS Arthur - 1906 - 17/01/1906 – Age 20 - Llwynypia No.1 Haulier, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. As deceased was lifting the cross-bar end of an empty tram on to the rails, on a road dipping 2 inches per yard, he fell backwards into the tram. The tram ran down 140 yards, jumped off the road, and knocked some timbers out. Deceased was found to have sustained a fracture of the skull, which caused his death in two days.

HOWELLS Daniel - 1907 - 10/08/1907 – Age 21 - Lady Lewis Collier, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 9 feet by 3.5 feet by 33 inches thick, fell from between three slips, two of which ran parallel with the face. In falling it broke the lids of two props. Four-feet Seam.

HOWELLS Daniel - 1907 - 10/08/1907 – Collier, Lady Lewis 21, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face cliff, 9 feet by 3.5 feet by 33 inches thick, it fell from between three slips, two of which ran parallel with the face. In falling it broke the lids of two props. Four Feet seam.

HOWELLS Daniel - 1907 - 22/06/1907 – Age 33 - Ynishir Repairer, Ynisher Steam Coal Co., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road, cliff, 13 feet by 10 feet by 45 inches thick. Deceased and his assistant were sent by the fireman to take out a pair of timbers that were getting too low, the assistant said that deceased examined the roof before commencing to take out the timber and found that it sounded safe. He then cut the arm out with a hatchet, and directly it was done a heavy fall took place and killed him. Prop-drawing appliances are provided, but the men do not make as much use of them as they should. Deceased evidently deceived by the sound, as it was such a thick stone. The fireman examined the place at 2 pm and considered that there was no danger in taking out the old timbers. No.3 seam.

HOWELLS David - 1906 - 10/09/1906 – Age 17 - Capel Ifan No.2 Slant Hitcher, Pentremawr Colliery Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While attending to the points, a journey of trams ran back and carried him 20 yards down the slant. The pin of the first shackle was found out of the eye of the lower part of his jaw.

HOWELLS Frederick - 1905 - 06/12/1905 – Age 64 - Ferndale No.8 Labourer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was cleaning the road on "eight hours dip," and stood on one side to allow a journey of two trams of coal to pass him. As soon as they had passed up he stepped into the road and was struck by the trains running back. After they had been drawn up 4 to 6 yards above deceased, the block, holding the reversing lever in position, jumped or was jerked up the engine reversed and the trams ran back until they were tumbled by the barhook. The engineman said that the rope coiled up and fell back and that the jerk so produced caused the block to jump up out of the notch in the rack.

HOWELLS George - 1904 - 16/03/1904 – Age 29 - South Wales, Cwmtillery Collier, Lancasters Steam Coal Collieries Ltd., Monmouth. While engaged pulling down some overhanging coal it slipped over the sprags and crushed him. He died from an abscess on the brain 7th January, 1905.

HOWELLS George - 1906 - 23/02/1906 – Age 37 - Fforest Isaf Collier, Fforest Isaf Colliery Co., Glamorgan. While riding into the colliery level, in a train of empty trams drawn by a horse, he over-balanced and fell between the trams and dislocated his shoulder. Pneumonia set in, and he died 29th April.

HOWELLS Ivor - 1907 - 14/06/1907 – Age 17 - Bedlinog Collier boy, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 6.5 feet by 4.5 feet by 14 inches thick. Deceased was pulling down some top coal and when it fell, the roof it had supported also fell and fractured his skull. There was a smooth slip on each side of the stone. Deceased was in the charge of an experienced collier. Ras Las seam.

HOWELLS John - 1905 - 11/07/1905 – Age 42 - 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. Weston Terrace, Ynyshir. Buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

HOWELLS M. - 1900 - 11/09/1900 – Age 22 - Onllwyn Collier, Griffith Thomas, Glamorgan. Fall at face coal, 10 feet x 3 feet x 1 foot 10 inches thick off a false slip. One sprag was crushed out. A heavy pounce was heard at the time. Nine feet seam.

HOWELLS Owen - 1908 - 04/01/1908 – Age 39 - Fochriw No.1 Labourer, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was working in an airway when a small stone fell, and cut his little finger. He went back to the lamp station, where the ambulance box was kept, and had a bandage put on. He finished his shift, and worked two days after. On the fourth day, after the accident, he was seen and attended to by a medical man. Blood poisoning set in, and he died in 13 days.

HOWELLS Richard - 1900 - 29/03/1900 – Age 61 - Llwynypia Cogman, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall at face of coal, 11 feet x 4.5 feet x 1 inch thick, fell from between two slips partly discharging a flat. The flats were 4.5 feet apart. Four feet seam.

HOWELLS Samuel - 1909 - 11/12/1909 – Age 25 - Bettisfield Labourer, Bagillt Coal Co., Flint. Through the jig rope chain getting somehow unhooked from the empty tubs at the bottom of the self-acting jig when starting jigging, it caused the full journey of tubs to run into the main haulage level, striking the endless rope running at right angles, and the jerking of the endless rope fatally injured the two deceased persons, in the main haulage level. 2 killed.

HOWELLS Thomas - 1903 - 28/09/1903 – Age 33 - Trefor Roadsman, Lewis Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by a runaway tram which had been standing on a double parting having a dip of nearly 2 inches per yard. A haulier in attempting to lower the tram a few yards somehow allowed it to run away probably through failing to sprag it.

HOWELLS Thomas - 1904 - 17/05/1904 – Age 51 - Bush, Sandstone Quarry Quarryman, David and Thomas, Glamorgan. Deceased worked alone in the Quarry so there were no witness of the accident. He was seen by a passing collier, lying on the ground unable to move, about 30 yards from the face of the Quarry, having evidently been able to crawl that distance. He said a stone fell from the overburden and knocked him off the ledge he was standing on. His spine was fractured and he died on 11th Mar. 1905.

HOWELLS Thomas - 1906 - 29/01/1906 – Age 45 - Garw Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of side at face; while working out the butts, some 16 feet in length of coal from the upper part of the seam fell over the sprags and knocked out a prop, which apparently struck the deceased on the head, fracturing his skull. The prop was an old arm with its head reduced and would not have such a good grip as an ordinary one.

HOWELLS Thomas - 1907 - 05/03/1907 – Age 28 - Genwen Collier, David Harry and Bros., Carmarthen. Explosion of firedamp or coal dust. 6 killed.

HOWELLS Thomas D - 1905 - 11/07/1905 - National No.2 Boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones. Weston Terrace, Ynyshir, buried at Llethrddu Cemetery on Saturday.

HOWELLS Walter - 1907 - 06/02/1907 – Age 27 - Maindy Collier Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof at face, cliff, 6 feet by 6 feet by 18 inches thick, part of the rippings fell off the face slip of a 12 inches downthrow fault. He had just completed ripping a lower bed, and in doing so, very probably loosened the upper bed. Two feet nine seam.

HOWELLS William – 1904 – 09/06/1904 – Age 53 – Penrykyber Labourer, Penrykyber Navigation Colliery Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. When unloading timber from a railway wagon deceased put away the upright timbers holding the horizontal one in position and before he could get out of the way a nine feet prop fell on him and inflicted serious internal injuries. He died on the following day.

HOWELLS William – 1905 – 08/08/1905 – Age 33 – Goodwick Quarry Slinger, Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Co., Pembroke. Deceased was walking on the sidings, close to a steam crane which was travelling at the time, and by some means he was caught by one of the girders of the crane, and was thrown under the wheels and fatally injured.

HOWELLS William – 1909 – 20/04/1909 – Age 28 – Bargoed Ripper, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. He and others had been engaged for some time in securing a very dangerous place on the south-west double parting. It was seen by Mr. Robinson about a month previously, and side walls and girders were then being put in. The place was lagged on the girders, its height from top to bottom being about 30 feet, and the work was drawing to a close when a large fall occurred, discharging the whole of the framing, etc. In trying to escape, he unfortunately, jumped into danger instead of away from it and was caught under the fall.

HOWELLS Evan – 1907 – 09/08/1907 – Age 39 – Mardy No.3 Fireman, Lockets Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, who was waiting in a lodge at the bottom of No.3 (Upcast) pit, heard some signals from the surface, which were not understood by the hitchers. He got into the carriage and ordered the hitchers to signal him to the top. As the cage neared the surface, it was stopped by a signal received from the shaft, how or by whom given has not been ascertained. He was held in the shaft near the boxing, which was on fire for a minute or so, when he was brought to bank owing to screams heard by the banksman. He was burnt so badly that he died on the following day. The fire was very sudden and intense, and the knocking heard by deceased was the banksman warning for all at the shaft bottom to stand clear. The latter should never have allowed a man to be wound through the shaft under the circumstances, but should have written a message on the upper carriage and sent it down. Immediately deceased reached the surface, six of the eight guide ropes, followed by the winding rope, fell down the pit. The cause of the fire has not been satisfactorily explained, neither has the signal to stop the carriage.

HOWEY John William - 1907 - 11/02/1907 – Age 34 - Whitburn Stoneman, Harton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased and two other stonemen were shooting down a top canch of blue metal on a waggonway in the South Winnings district of the Yard seam of No.1 pit. The road was about 14 feet wide. The team is 3 feet 9 inches thick and about 1 foot of top stone and a few inches of bottom stone had already been removed to make height. The new canch was about 4 feet thick. The work was a bargain. They fired a shot charged with 14 ounces of Bellite on the left side about 4.40 pm and filled the stones into tubs and then at 7 pm fired a shot also charged with 14 ounces of Bellite on the right side. This shot left on about 18 inches of the hole. After firing both shots an examination was made and after the firing of the second shot some loose stone in-bye of the brow, to which their attention was called by another stoneman passing the place, was pulled down and the roof jowled and considered safe. Soon after when deceased and one of his mates was under the canch working at the loose stones a stone fell from the roof inside the brow killing deceased and slightly injuring his mate. The stone was 9 feet long across the road, 6 feet wide and up to 15 inches thick, and was relieved by a slip and a fossilliferous parting. The place had been examined by the back shift deputy before they started work. There was a supply of timber near. The Local Inspector reported, ‘We are of opinion that he was accidentally killed.’

HOWIE Ernest - 1905 - 07/07/1905 – Age 17 - Trimdon Grange Pony putter, Walter Scott Ltd., Co.Durham. Fall of stone probably caused by deceased hewing coal off the side, and disclosing a slip in the roof which let the stone down.

HOWIE Samuel - 1903 - 26/08/1903 – Age 15 - Busbiehead No.2 Labourer, J and R Howie Ltd., Ayrshire. Crushed between two waggons while attempting to couple them.

HOWLETT Harry - 1907 - 13/06/1907 – Age 18 - Treeton Rope runner, Rother Vale Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He was riding on the rope at the front of the empty train when the first tub ran into a small fall of stone on the rails, which had come from the side the tub, it was thrown off the way and he was injured either by being hit by the tub or colliding with the timber or side and died at Rotherham Hospital the following day. There was considerable weight and crush on the road owing to a face approaching it. In such roads riding on the front of the trams should not he allowed.

HOWLEY Edward - 1901 - 06/12/1901 – Age 58 - Trafford Collier, Crompton and Shawcross, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. It appears deceased slipped on an iron plate underground in the five feet mine causing a slight injury to his knee. He died from the effects of blood poisoning at the Wigan Infirmary on the 16th.

HOWLEY Patrick - 1904 - 10/08/1904 – Age 30 - Cadeby Main Miner, Denaby & Cadeby Main Collieries Ltd., Yorkshire. He had just got under the coal to resume holing at the face when without warning a large piece of coal fell and killed him. The fall disclosed three slips one on end and one on the bord and the third commencing from the floor at the face leaning over the solid coal the whole forming a pyramid of coal unsupported to the base of the holing. The place was well timbered.

HOWZE Latrick - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 22 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HOYES George – 1902 – 02/07/1902 – Age 56 – Aldwarke Main Engineman, John Brown and Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Died 8th September. He was lowering a full wagon and did not notice that another was creeping after it and he was fatally crushed between the buffers.

HOYLAND G. – 1900 – 06/03/1900 – Age 39 – Oaks Collier, C Cammell and Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side.

HOYLAND Vincent – 1905 – 11/05/1905 – Age 24 – Hemingfield Hurrier, Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. The collier, who was deceased’s brother, had holed a portion of the face, 1 foot 6 inches under for a length of 15 feet and got part of the coal down. He was standing pulling off a large slab to a slip with an iron bar and as soon as the coal came away the roof coal or ‘bags’ 17 inches in thickness followed and breaking off at the face and by the packs and chocks behind fell a length of 21 feet. Both men were caught. The collier, though seriously injured, recovered, but deceased was killed. The slip could be seen before the fall occurred and extra timber should have been set to support the roof, but none was set for a distance of 7 feet 5 inches. The Timbering Special Rules required that the distance between roof supports should not exceed 6 feet.

HOYLE Frank – 1904 – 26/02/1904 – Age 24 – Lidgett Coal cutter, Lidgett Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was laying rails in front of an electrical coal cutting machine when he was heard to call out and was found dead in front of the machine owing to having received an electric shock.

HOYLE Joseph – 1906 – 21/08/1906 – Age 25 – Brandon Stoneman, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. He was not prompt in getting out of the set in which he had been riding inbye, and was drawn into a curve. He received injuries from which he died in the Hospital nine days after.

HOYLE W – 1900 – 09/10/1900 – Age 35 – Fieldhouse Sinker, Leeds Fireclay Co., Yorkshire. Explosion of gas. Died 15th Oct.

HUBBARD Charles Henry – 1906 – 01/11/1906 – Age 44 – Blackwell A, Stallman, Blackwell Colliery Co., Derbyshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was taking a prop out of a partially built pack, when a fall of roof caused serious injury to deceased. He died 11th November.

HUBBARD Frederick John – 1909 – 18/09/1909 – Age 18 – Stafford, Kenball Wagoner, Stafford Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Deceased, who was a taker-off at the bottom of a jig 60 yards long having an inclination of 1 in 5.5, was pushing forward an empty tub to attach it to the chain when, on turning the curve, a full tub ran into him causing injuries from which he died two days later. The jig was provided with proper signalling apparatus and a code of signals was hung at both top and bottom, in accordance with which code the jigger ought to have signalled, "two" to the taker-off and the latter returned 'two" before the jigging commenced. The practice actually followed, however, unknown to the management, appeared to have been that when the taker-off was ready he first he signalled to the top, and in that ease the jigger gave no signal before jigging. The jigger admitted that before jigging the tub he had given no signal down, but said he had received the up signal. The deceased denied this to several people before his death, and as the empty tub had not been attached it did not appear likely that the up signal was given. The jigger was prosecuted under Special Rule 95, and on conviction was fined 40 shillings and costs.

HUBBARD William – 1905 – 20/12/1905 – Age 52 – Fryston Contractor, Wheldale Coal Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was a contractor for taking away and emptying dirt and ashes from the boilers, and had to lower the tubs containing the ashes some 15 yards down an incline, dipping 1 in 7, and then shunt and take them up the main incline by means of an endless rope. He evidently had been lowering a full tub near the bottom of the incline and had omitted to put in a locker in the tub he had left, and this tub crept away and ran into and totally crushed him against the frame of a haulage pulley.

HUBBICK or HIBBICK Thomas – 1908 – 11/05/1908 – Age 35 – Ryhope Stoneman, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was working at a caunch, when a piece of stone fell from an invisible slip, and knocked out the timber. He was struck on the head by the timber, and had his skull fractured.

HUBYE James – 1909 – 19/03/1909 – Age 39 – Radfield, Sandstone Quarry Labourer, Oddy and Booth Yorkshire. A quantity of dressed stone had been piled near the edge of the Quarry. A sharp frost followed by a rapid thaw, which caused the soil under the stones to crumble, and the stones fell into the Quarry. One of them struck Hubye and killed him on the spot.

HUDD Arthur – 1907 – 08/05/1907 – Age 15 – Hylton Driver, Wearmouth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Deceased, who had worked 18 months in the pit, was driving a set of 9 loaded tubs outbye on a level road 12 feet wide and 12 feet high and laid with rails weighing 40 lbs. to the yard. He was last seen sitting on the limbers as he passed a stoneman, about half an hour before he was found dead by the putter, who had come out from the flat to ascertain why he had not returned with the empties. The pony was lying down with its limbers still connected to the first tub and deceased’s head was between the limbers and tub and he was quite dead. The two leading tubs were off the way, his safety lamp was near his body. There was nothing observed in the shape of a fall of roof or other cause to account for the tubs being derailed and it is probable that the pony had stumbled and fallen and so caused the accident. The Local Inspectors reported ‘In our opinion it is a pure accident.’

HUDD Mark – 1908 – 04/02/1908 – Age 42 – Eastern Collier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased, who was standing near the shaft fop as the cage filled with men began to be lowered, he jumped forward to get in, and was crushed to death against the collar boards. It was a mad act to attempt, and if he had succeeded in getting in the cage he would not have gained more than a minutes time.

HUDD William – 1905 – 11/07/1905 – Age 16 – National No.2 Collier boy, United National Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This explosion was specially reported on by E Milner-Jones, FA Gray and JT Robson. 119 killed. 44, Ifillside Terrace, Wattstown.

HUDDLESTON Thomas – 1900 – 09/04/1900 – Age 29 – Roanhead, Iron Ore Miner, Kennedy Bros. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. A shot had been fired, which blew out a leg and let down the third head-tree from the working face. Apparently they were examining the damage done when a fall occurred displacing another set of wood and burying both men. No one was working near and the two men were entombed for a period of five hours before being discovered. Boreland was got out alive but subsequently succumbed to shock. 2 killed.

HUDDLESTONE G. – 1902 – 31/01/1902 – Age 55 – Tunnel, Limestone Quarry Quarryman, H Parry and Sons Ltd., Lincolnshire. Unknown to the other workmen he went into a waggon into which stone was being tipped. A barrow of limestone was shot upon him with fatal results.

HUDDLESTONE Joseph – 1909 – 20/09/1909 – Age 48 – Eston Ironstone Miner, Bolckow Vaughan and Co., North Yorkshire. He and his mate were taking out a stook when a piece of ironstone fell from near the top of the seam (which at this point was 15 feet thick) and killed him. There is more than the average amount of danger when the last lift or stock, of a pillar is being taken out, and it is only by very careful examination by the deputies and by the miners, and constant alertness, that accidents of this character can, if at all, be avoided.

HUDSON Harold – 1907 – 27/11/1907 – Age 18 – Wath Main Jinney lad, Wath Main Colliery Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. He was illegally riding, along with three other lads, on the rope of a set of 40 tubs down a self-acting incline nearly 800 yards long and as the set reached the bottom the hook of the fortieth tub broke allowing thirty-nine to run forward. The fortieth tub was jerked violently back and pulled upon the lad who was fatally injured. Died Dec. 6th. The accident is due to an unauthorised person being in charge of the self-acting incline. The jinney load appointed a driver to journey the set, which was the last of the day, the driver lost control of the set and allowed the empty train to run violently into the jinney wheel frame and caused the jerk which broke the hook.

HUDSON Joseph - 1906 - 10/05/1906 – Age 19 - Holmside, Thomas Putter, Thomas Heldey and Bros., Co.Durham. When driving outbye he struck his head against a plank and fell on to the timbers. His spine was broken.

HUDSON Thomas - 1903 - 12/05/1903 – Age 16 - Parkside, Iron Ore, Ore picker, Parkside Mining Co., Cumberland. Deceased was employed on a picking belt and part of his work was to lower the wagons from the hurry or shoot after they were loaded. A loaded wagon stood a few yards in front of the shoot, a wagon at the shoot was just finished loading and three wagons loaded from a heap stood on the same line of rails 3 or 4 feet behind. The locomotive came to remove the five wagons and after being coupled to the first was signalled back by the guard and bumped against the wagon at the shoot which in turn humped against the three behind it and rebounding caught and crushed deceased, who at this moment appears to have gone between the first and second wagons to couple them.

HUDSON William - 1909 - 20/02/1909 – Age 62 - Usworth Joiner, Johnasson Gordon and Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Stepped into a pool of hot water.

HUDSON William S. - 1904 - 16/05/1904 – Age 13 - Waun Llwyd Collier’s boy, Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Edward Parfitt (his butty) pulled down some coal from the face on to a tram. Parfitt states that he had placed the boy at the side of the tram for safety. From the position of the body and shovel it looked as if deceased was filling coal.

HUDSTON Walker - 1902 - 31/03/1902 – Age 36 - Lochgelly Sinker, Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Deceased and two other sinkers were engaged attending to a steam pump, 40 fathoms down, and stood on a scaffold. Water was being raised from the bottom by a barrel and in ascending it swung to the end and caught an iron girder knocking out a bunton which fell onto the scaffold and striking deceased he fell down among the water 30 fathoms below.

HUFTON Samuel - 1900 - 06/09/1900 – Age 60 - Cossall Banksman, Cossall Colliery Co., Nottinghamshire. It was stated that deceased had received an injury at the mine on 9th March but at the coroner's inquest it was found that death was due to natural causes viz. debility and pleurisy.

HUGGET W.J. - 1900 - 28/04/1900 – Age 15 - Deep Navigation, South Collier’s boy, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fell out of the cage in which he was descending with 14 others.

HUGH John - 1909 - 05/06/1909 – Age 27 - Windsor Haulier, Windsor Steam Coal Co. (1901) Ltd., Glamorgan. Two horses hitched together were pulling, at a smart pace, a tram of coal out of the face of a heading dipping 4 inches per yard. Deceased was riding on the "gun" when his head came in contact with a collar, 4 feet 10 inches above the rail. The timbers on either side were 15 inches higher.

HUGHES Albert - 1906 - 20/02/1906 – Age 17 - Tillery Coal trimmer, Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. From double pneumonia. He fell from a small coal truck and bruised his side and leg when at work at Tillery Colliery on the 29th December. His relatives attempted to prove that death resulted from this injury. Medical evidence showed otherwise.

HUGHES Anthony - 1908 - 18/08/1908 – Age 42 - Maypole Contractor, Moss Hall Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp and coal dust. 75 killed.

HUGHES Arthur - 1909 - 10/12/1909 – Age 48 - Ty Trist Haulier, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Another haulier appears to have brought a tram down the engine plane on which they were both working in the night shift, with horses. This haulier seems to have unhitched his horse from his full tram, and it collided with an empty tram, said to have been spragged, and set it in motion; gaining in velocity it struck Hughes when he was turning the points of a double parting. Apparently there was some carelessness in securing the empty tram on the inclined road.

HUGHES Benjamin - 1905 - 16/05/1905 – Age 45 - Clay Cross No.4 Deputy, Clay Cross Co., Derbyshire. Fall of side. While digging a trench in which to lay water pipes along a main roadway, a piece of the side fell and fatally injured the deceased. He died the same day.

HUGHES Benjamin - 1905 - 27/04/1905 – Age 45 - Warsop Main Deputy, Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Derbyshire. Fall of coal. He was breaking up coal which had fallen against the timber when a portion of the coal face rolled over and killed him. He died the same day.

HUGHES Cecil - 1908 - 05/09/1908 – Age 24 - Itter, Clay Quarry Clay getter, AW Itter, Buckinghamshire. Fall of clay from the face of the Quarry.

HUGHES Charles - 1905 - 15/07/1905 – Age 21 - Wood Farm Trammer, Wood Farm Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Irruption of water from a canal feeder through a breakdown of the strata to the surface. 3 killed.

HUGHES Charles - 1906 - 12/02/1906 – Age 44 - Colliery storeman, Co.Durham? Shock & crush injuries of the chest with fractured ribs crushed by tubs in the colliery (underground accident).

HUGHES D.J. - 1902 - 11/11/1902 – Age 20 - Deep Navigation Haulier, Ocean Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Object falling down the shaft. 5 killed.

HUGHES David - 1903 - 15/10/1903 – Age 37 - Allanton Miner, William Barr and Sons, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on haulage road while repairing it.

HUGHES David - 1907 - 23/12/1907 – Age 44 - Letty Shenkin Sheaveman, Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased was supposed to be oiling a haulage sheaf when he was run over and killed by a journey. No one saw the accident, but, as he was seen at the sheaf a few minutes before, and his oil can was found by it, it was concluded that he was oiling at the time. The road was 8 to 10 feet wide, 7 feet high and was well provided with manholes.

HUGHES David Lewis - 1904 - 05/05/1904 – Age 58 - South Wales Collier, Monmouth. Died from failure of the heart's action on the 5th March. He broke his arm when at work in October 1903 and it was attempted to show that death was accelerated by this but the medical evidence was very clear on the point.

HUGHES Edward - 1905 - 13/11/1905 – Age 26 - Meiros Haulier, Gas Coal Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. On road, rock, 5 feet by 3 feet by 18 inches thick, fell from the slip of a small fault as deceased was passing in to his work. The roof was quite unsupported. No.3 Rhondda seam.

HUGHES Edward - 1909 - 23/05/1909 – Age 38 - Cambrian No.1 Haulier, Cambrian Collieries Ltd., Glamorgan. This accident was not witnessed. From his position it was assumed that he was lifting a derailed tram, with the aid of a pluck by the horse, a very dangerous practice; when he slipped under.

HUGHES Edwin - 1901 - 12/06/1901 – Age 29 - McLaren No.1 Repairer, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof in a hard heading where was engaged making a manhole. The stone, which weighed from 5 to 6 tons, fell from 3 slips.

HUGHES Evan - 1900 - 09/04/1900 – Age 65 - Clynhebog Labourer, Pontyberem Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. While shifting waggons he slipped and was caught between them and a stage.

HUGHES Evan - 1901 - 14/03/1901 – Age 22 - Minffordd Diabase Quarry Quarryman, Pwllehi Granite Co., Merioneth. A stone weighing about a ton slipped down a heap and caught his thigh between it and the sharp edge of another stone. He died in about half an hour.

HUGHES Evan - 1908 - 30/03/1908 – Age 36 - Bwllfa Dare Engineman, Bwllfa and Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Ltd., Glamorgan. Deceased and five other persons were ascending the downcast shaft in the west cage. He stood at the south end of the cage, and was seen to be holding on to the handrail when the ascent commenced. When about half-way up the shaft he was seen to fall out of the cage, giving no cry as he did so. The witnesses agreed that the cage was running smoothly, and that there was no pushing or horseplay going on at the time. The cages are constructed to carry ten men, and are provided with tkhe usual handrails. There was no evidence brought forward to account for the occurrence. Deceased is said to have been in good health, and not subject to fits. It appeared to me to be a case of suicide.

HUGHES George - 1903 - 31/03/1903 – Age 50 - Glyncastle Collier, Cory Bros. and Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall on road; died 9th April from meningitis the result of a slight injury to his knee by the fall of a small stone while kneeling and making a place for an arm of a pair of timbers, 12 yards from face. Four-feet seam.

HUGHES Henry – 1904 – 25/02/1904 – Age 48 – Wynnstay Fitter, Wynnstay Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. He had been down attending to the compressed air arrangements and when riding on the tubs, up the haulage downbrow, he got crushed against the roof in a low portion of the roadway. He succumbed to the injuries received September 2. 1904, at the Ruabon Hospital.

HUGHES Hugh – 1903 – 02/07/1903 – Age 40 – Whitehaven Stoneman, Whitehaven Colliery Co., Cumberland. Ten shots were to be fired at the face of a stone drift. Two shots charged with geloxite were connected to the battery to be fired first, as sumping shots, but only one exploded. Deceased and three other men went to the face and were examining it when a large stone fell off the face upon him.

HUGHES Hugh – 1904 – 06/05/1904 – Age 50 – Bedwellty Lampman, Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Monmouth. Two hauliers unscotched a tram, on a steep gradient and allowed it to run wild, notwithstanding that they were told not to meddle with it, it ran into a door at which deceased was stationed and killed him. They were subsequently prosecuted under the Coal Mines Regulation Act and sent to prison for one month by the Justices, without the option of a fine.

HUGHES Hugh – 1906 – 02/04/1906 – Age 30 – Diphwys, Slate Labourer, George Henry Ellis, Merioneth. A piece of slate fell from his working place and struck him on the head.

HUGHES Hugh – 1909 – 22/05/1909 – Age 19 – Bettisfield Shunter, Bagillt Coal Co., Flint. When lowering railway waggons he appeared to have been sitting on the brake lever, and fell under the moving waggons and was killed.

HUGHES James – 1909 – 29/11/1909 – Age 21 – Loanhead Drawer, Shotts Iron Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Deceased was coming outbye with two loaded tubs, on a level road, with a slight dip, and while passing a low part he failed to stoop under and his head came violently in contact with a crown, dislocating his neck.

HUGHES James Henry – 1904 – 08/07/1904 – Age 20 – Outwood, five quarters Waggoner, Thomas Fletcher and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, some had been pulled down, he was passing in front when a further fall occurred, he thought all had fallen.

HUGHES Jeremiah – 1902 – 09/10/1902 – Age 48 – Llechwedd Slate, Slate getter, JW Greaves and Sons Ltd., Merioneth. Though no one actually saw the accident happen there can be little doubt but that a small stone fell from the roof or side of a chamber and struck him on the head.

HUGHES John – 1900 – 07/02/1900 – Age 65 – Cauldon Low (limestone Quarry) Quarryman, North Staffordshire Railway Co., Staffordshire. Explosion of a cartridge of frozen gelignite while he was breaking it in his hands.

HUGHES John – 1900 – 13/07/1900 – Age 48 – Hamsteels Hewer, Trustees of late Joseph Johnson, Co.Durham. Killed by fall of stone from the roof in his working place.

HUGHES John – 1901 – 11/12/1901 – Age 39 – Ferndale No.5 Repairer, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of roof on road cliff, 7 feet by 3 feet by 1.5 feet thick, it fell while he was sounding it preparatory to taking it down. He was ripping to make height. Five feet seam.

HUGHES John – 1901 – 25/02/1901 – Age 37 - Wrexham & Acton Collier, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was engaged holing under the Brassey coal after a shot had been fired in the adjoining piece, when a large piece of coal came off from a slip capping two sprags and fatally injuring him. Died 8th Mar 1901.

HUGHES John – 1902 – 01/02/1902 – Age 32 – South Duffryn No.2 Ripper, Hills Plymouth Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. While he was holding a light for another ripper, who was pulling down loose stones, a stone weighing 7lb. fell from the roof and cut his head. Erysipelas set in and he died in eight days. Four feet seam.

HUGHES John – 1902 – 06/06/1902 – Age 40 – Drumpeller No.3 Miner, Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. While ascending the escape shaft, along with a third miner, the cage left the slides got caught by bintons and was broken and tilted over and the two deceased fell out to the bottom. 2 killed.

HUGHES John – 1905 – 04/07/1905 – Age 32 – Littleton Cager, Stafford. Crushed under the cage at the bottom of the shaft.

HUGHES John – 1905 – 16/06/1905 – Age 18 – Great Mountain Collier, Great Mountain Collieries Co. Ltd., Carmarthen. Fall of roof at face; while working a piece of coal, in falling it knocked out a prop and loosened a stone measuring 8.5 feet x 2.25 feet x 1 foot and it fell upon him. Clift roof; Green vein.