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COAL or Coil John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 37. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COAL T. - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 37 - Deputy Overman. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COATES George - 1868 - 01/05/1868 – Age 13 - Doorboy. Cwm Cynon, H Evans and Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Killed at bottom of shaft.

COATES J. - 1866 - 09/06/1866 – Age 45 - Bandsman. Withymoor, WH Dawes, Netherton, Warwick. Fall of Coal in bottom part of thick Coal workings from a slip not previously seen. Brought about by a ‘bump’. 2 killed.

COATES Joseph - 1861 - 29/04/1861 – Age 44- Sinker. Moss Hall and Low Hall, Moss Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Suffocation by gas. 2 killed.

COATES S. - 1861 - 11/06/1861 – Age 33 - Miner. Clay Cross, William Jackson and Partners, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Suffocated in the No.2 black shale pit in Consequence of an inundation of water from old workings. Sealed him up for 22 days. 23 killed.

COATES Samuel - 1868 - 05/01/1868 – Age 35 - Collier. Allerton Bywater, TM Carter and Co., Castleford, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

COATS Archibald - 1866 - 03/01/1866 - Collier. Motherwell, John Watson, jnr., Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp in stables. The pit had been shut for a month to smother a fire. It was opened up and air on for 30 hours before the accident but the stables which they were cleaning out had not been examined. 2 killed.

COCHRANE John - 1867 - 01/02/1867 – Age 15 - Boy. Bartonholm No.3, Eglinton Iron Co., Kilwinning, Ayrshire.  Fall of Coal at the face.

COCKBURN John - 1867 - 16/05/1867 – Age 19 - Hewer. Scremerston Colliery, Johnson, and Co., Berwick Northumberland. Fall of band.

COCKBURN John - 1867 - 18/05/1867 – Age 19 - Hewer. Felling, G Elliott and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Fall of stone.

COCKER Joseph - 1869 - 18/12/1869 – Age 55- Sinker. Greenacres, Leese and Co., Oldham, Lancashire. Scalded in a hot water cistern which he fell into when crossing over it in a plank.

COCKHILL Robert - 1865 - 13/07/1865. Haigh Moor, Pope and Co., Normanton, Yorkshire. Fall of Coal in mine.

COCKLING Daniel - 1869 - 13/02/1869 – Age 26 - Collier. Nesfield, Sheepbridge Co., Ltd., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

COCKLUEF William - 1866 - 04/10/1866 - Collier. Langton Coke and Co., Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of bind.

COCKROM John - 1864 - 02/04/1864 - Collier. Victoria, Walmsley, Rainford, St. Helens, Lancashire. Run over on jig brow by loaded tub.

COE John - 1860 - 28/12/1860. Woodthorpe, John Rhodes, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Breaking of a hempen pit rope. 2 killed.

COFFEE Timothy - 1865 - 07/05/1865 - Collier. Springwell, Staveley Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Rope broke and killed him on the bank.

COFFIE A. - 1862 09/09/1862 - Collier. Jerviston, Summerlee Iron Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Fall of Coal in Pyotshaw Coal.

COGAN A. - 1860 - 20/12/1860 - Miner. Trubshaw, Andrew and Co. Newcastle, Staffordshire. Wire rope broke on descending. 2 killed.

COGAN Daniel - 1863 - 03/02/1863 – Age 15. Waterman Navigation, Nixon Taylor and Cory, Aberdare, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas (locked lamp Colliery).

COGANS Hugh - 1862 - 08/05/1862 – Age 13 - Boy. Swinersdgemuir, Merry and Cunningham, Dalry, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof at face.

COIL or Coal John - 1862 - 16/01/1862 – Age 37. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Hartley, Durham. Entombment due to the breaking of an engine beam which fell down the single shaft. 204 killed.

COIL or COYLES John - 1867 - 01/06/1867 – Age 39 - Miner. Washington, Bell Kimpster and Co., Gateshead, Durham. Overwinding. 10 killed.

COIL Thomas - 1862 - 17/01/1862 – Age 37 – Deputy Overman. New Hartley, Messrs. Carrs, Seaton Delaval, Durham. Entombment due to breaking of engine beam. 204 killed. Left a wife and five children.

COKER John - 1867 – 24/08/1867 – Age 12 - Driver. Seaton, Earl Vane, Sunderland, Durham. Crushed by set of tubs on rolley way.

COLBORN William - 1860 - 26/08/1860 – Age 15 – Carrier. Priorsfield, B. Whitehouse, Bilston, Staffordshire. Fall in the new mine Coal in a place only 6 feet wide. (Slip intervened).

COLCLOUGH A. - 1865 - 08/02/1865 – Age 25 - Banksman. Foley, WH Sparrow and Son, Longton, Staffordshire. Fell down shaft.

COLCLOUGH J. - 1863 - 24/07/1863 – Age 27 - Collier. Talk o’th’ Hill, North Staffordshire. Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp.

COLCLOUGH T. - 1864 - 24/12/1864 – Age 28 - Collier. Bunkers Hill, W Rigby, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

COLCOMB Henry - 1866 - 06/04/1866 – Age 33 – Archer. Cwmsychan. Ebbw Vale Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. In Coming up the pit he fell out of the cage and was killed.

COLD Andrew - 1866 - 03/01/1866 - Collier. Motherwell, John Watson, jnr., Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp in stables. The pit had been shut for a month to smother a fire. It was opened up and air on for 30 hours before the accident but the stables which they were cleaning out had not been examined. 2 killed.

COLDRAKE C. - 1861 - 09/01/1861 - Collier. Brownhills, William Harrison, Walsall, Staffordshire. Suffocated with smoke from a fire which originated in an airway in the ‘deep Coal’ workings of an adjoining pit. 6 killed.

COLE George - 1864 - 10/06/1864 – Age 54 – Onsetter. Dryburn Colliery, Grange, Lady Londonderry, Durham. Crushed by descending cage.

COLE H. - 1861 - 09/12/1861 - Miner. Tame Lane, (ironstone), Johnson, and Briggs, Willenhall, Staffordshire. Injured by explosion of firedamp 22nd. Died this day.

COLE James - 1869 - 09/01/1869 – Age 40 - Collier. Trafalgar, Cornelius Brain and Sons, Forest of Dean, Gloucester. Fall of stone (Bell) 9th. Died 30th.

COLE S - 1863 - 15/08/1863 – Age 38 - Deputy. Salt Well, Earl of Dudley, Netherton, Worcestershire. Premature explosion of shot.

COLE Samuel - 1861 - 20/02/1861 – Age 71 - Miner. Gelly (ironstone), Darby, Brown and Co. Abersychan, Monmouth. Fall of roof over bottom ironstone.

COLE William - 1863 - 19/02/1863 – Age 13 – Coupler. Wingate Grange, John Gully, Hartlepool, Durham. Crushed by tubs (at shaft landing).

COLES John - 1869 - 22/10/1869 – Age 50. Newbury, Westbury Iron Co., Newbury, Somerset. Explosion of firedamp. 11 killed. At half past six in the morning there was an explosion at Newbury, Colliery, five miles from Frome, in which nine persons, were killed and four others were so severely injured that scarcely any hopes were entertained of their recovery. The men were going down for the day shift. The first warning that anything was wrong was a loud report from underground which could be heard for a mile and then a large amount of dense smoke appeared out of the upcast shaft. The pit head was soon covered by women and children crying and exhibiting the deepest grief. The bailiff, Mr Bake and the lampman descended the downcast shaft and proceeded in the direction of the cupola. They found the gas had ignited near a standing pillar of Coal. They found a
Jacket belonging to one of the deceased in which there was a pipe and a quantity of tobacco. Left a wife and 3 children.

COLES Samuel - 1861 - 14/02/1861. Pit at Abersychan, Monmouth. Fall of earth.

COLEY James - 1861 - 30/12/1861 - Collier. Bower Colliery, Marlands, Bailey and Booth, Hollinwood, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp. Died 7th Jan, - 1862.

COLEY T. - 1866 - 02/05/1866 – Age 20 - Bandsman. Herbert’s Park, D Jones, Darlaston, Staffordshire. Fall of roof rock in Mealy Grey Coal pit caused by a slip which ran parallel with the working face of the Coal seam. 2 killed.

COLLETT Henry – 1867 - 06/11/1867 – Dayman. Bower, Messrs. Marland, Hollinwood, Lancashire. A train of waggons ran against him on the engine brow the iron pin connecting the swivel and the hook to the rope having broken.

COLLEY Thomas - 1868 - 08/05/1868 - Night chargeman. Silkstone, R Hudson and Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

COLLIER Charles - 1868 - 23/07/1868 – Age 20 - Collier. Brinks, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Haigh, Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

Collier. George - 1867 - 08/07/1867 – Age 14 - Putter. Frys Bottom Colliery, Frys Bottom Co., Clutton, Somerset. On a Monday afternoon these were the only two men in the pit when water suddenly broke in and the men were sent for. Shifts were formed and succeeded each other with great zeal but it was not until the following Sunday that the bodies were recovered. They died most likely from suffocation and not from drowning. 2 killed. The men, noting wet Coal, instinctively suspected danger but a boring ordered by the manager found nothing. Work Continued, but soon after water broke through and the accident occurred. Fry's Bottom is said to have had a good safety record. The death of Jabez Cook "a member of the congregation and much esteemed by all" is noted in the minute book of the Clutton Congregational Chapel. The man and the boy were buried together at the Clutton Parish Church - 18/07/1867.

COLLIER James - 1869 - 27/03/1869 – Age 21 - Miner. Wet Earth, Clifton, and Kearsley Co., Clifton, Lancashire. Roof Coal which was being taken down falling on him.

COLLIER Ralph - 1863 - 21/08/1863 – Age 50 - Miner. Rose Hill Samuel Scowcroft, Bolton, Lancashire. Roof falling at an unseen slip in Doe mine.

COLLIER Richard - 1867 - 20/09/1867 – Age 13 - Drawer. Moss Pearson and Knowles, Wigan, Lancashire. Crushed by full tub.

COLLIER William - 1865 - 12/01/1865 - Banksman. Broomfield, Thomas Stone, Standish, Wigan, Lancashire. Falling in shaft.

COLLINGE John - 1864 - 28/07/1864 – Age 58 - Miner. Gannow, Executors of John Hargreaves, Burnley, Lancashire. Roof falling at two unseen slippery partings and when propping was omitted.

COLLINGS WH - 1867 - 11/10/1867 – Age 16 – Ponyputter. Auckland Park, Black Boy Coal Co., Bishop Auckland, Durham. Crushed by his tub.

COLLINGWOOD Richard - 1860 - 09/02/1860 – Age 19 - Putter. Byers Green, R.W. Jackson, Auckland, Durham. Fall of stone.

COLLINS E. - 1861 - 16/04/1861 – Age 35 - Loader. Woodside, Cochrane, and Co., Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of coal in ‘thick coal’ occasioned by a ‘bump’.

COLLINS James - 1868 - 10/10/1868 – Age 36 - Drawer. Gartshore No.8, W Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Fell from the cage by the crane rope falling on him.

COLLINS James - 1868 - 11/07/1868 – Age 15 - Collier. Trafalgar, C Brain and Sons, Forest of Dean, Gloucester. He concealed some gunpowder and it exploded in his pocket burning him so severely that he died next day.

COLLINS Patrick - 1867 - 20/07/1867 – Age 46 – Brusher. Grange No.2, Robert Yates and Co., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof.

COLLINSON, William - 1862 - 23/06/1862 – Age 47 - Hewer. Job’s Hill, J Pease and Co., Crook, Durham. Fall of stone.

COLLIS W. - 1860 - 21/09/1860 – Age 16 - Trammer. Newbold, S. Beale and Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Falling down the shaft from cage catching the woodwork at the pit top and thereby breaking the chain which attached the rope to the cage. 4 killed.

COLQUHOUNE W.B. - 1860 - 20/07/1860 - Engineman. Airdriehill, Todd and Colquhoun, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Coming into contact with a pumping crank.

COLUMBINE George - 1862 - 08/12/1862. Edmunds Main, Mitchell and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Explosion of inflammable gas and vapours which were given off by a burning coal seam. 59 killed.

COLVILLE D. - 1867 - 28/07/1867 – Age 50 - Sinker. Tennochfide [sic - presumably Tannochside], Monkland Iron Co., Holytown, Lanarkshire. Killed by a shot in sinking pit. The match kindled the straw before they had time to get out of harm’s way. 2 killed.

COMBIE Emanuel - 1861 - 23/05/1861 – Age 25 - Hewer. Newbottle, Margaret Earl of Durham, Houghton, Durham. Fall of stone.

COMBIE George - 1864 - 19/03/1864 – Age 40 - Collier. Pentyrch, Booker and Co., Cardiff Glamorgan. Fall of stone from roof.

COMNOCK Christopher - 1869 - 03/05/1869 – Age 45 - Banksman. Plaskynaston, Plaskynaston Coal Co., Ruabon, Denbigh. Whilst tipping coal the apparatus broke and he fell on the railway.

CONDIE James - 1863 - 12/11/1863 – Age 20 - Collier. Palace Craig No.6, William Baird, and Co., Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

CONDIE S. - 1860 - 31/03/1860 – Age 32 - Deputy. Hollingwood, R. Barrow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

CONELLY or CONNELLY James - 1865 - 20/04/1865 – Age 32 - Hewer. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone working shift work.

CONNAL Andrew - 1869 - 21/04/1869 – Age 58 - Roadsman. Galston, John Horne, Galston, Ayrshire.  Was raised by the cage at the shaft when going off at a midworking.

CONNAR John - 1862 - 08/02/1862 – Age 19 - Collier. Shirva, Walter Wingate, Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

CONNEL Alexander - 1866 - 26/12/1866 – Age 50 - Collier. Riskend, William Baird and Co., Kilsyth, Stirling. Fall of Coal and roof.

CONNELLY or CONELLY James - 1865 - 20/04/1865 – Age 32 - Hewer. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Fall of stone working shift work.

CONNER J - 1863 - 11/12/1863 - Hooker-on. Lawton, Bidder and Elliot, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fell into sump.

CONNER M. - 1864 - 23/01/1864 – Age 25 - Collier. Pelsall Davis, Bloomer and Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal roof (in thin Coal mine) injured 8th. Died this day.

CONNER T. O. - 1862 - 14/02/1862 – Age 40 - Loader. Gospel Oak, Grazebrooke and Aston, Tipton, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal.

CONNINGHAM W. - 1862 - 21/02/1862 – Age 45 - Collier. Conduit, Conduit Colliery Co., Brownhills, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp brought about by carelessness and disobedience of orders.

CONNOLLY John - 1869 - 22/12/1869 – Age 48 - Collier. Mount Vernon, John Young, Baillieston, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at face.

CONNOR William - 1865 - 10/01/1865 – Age 20 - Drawer. Dalziel, John P Kidston, Dalziel, Lanarkshire. Explosion of firedamp.

CONWAY J. - 1868 - 31/03/1868 – Age 44 - Collier. Stonetrough, Williamson Brothers, Tunstall, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

CONWAY Michael - 1867 - 30/05/1867 - Drawer. Blackeyhurst, Samuel Stock, St. Helens, Lancashire. Run over by train of Coal tubs in the Rushy Park mine.

CONWAY Peter - 1868 - 05/11/1868 – Age 25 - Drawer. Ince Hall, Ince Hall Coal and Cannel Co., Ince, Wigan, Wigan, Crushed by tub and seriously injured.

CONWAY Thomas - 1864 - 06/07/1864 – Age 24 - Redsman. Eastfield, TG Buchanan, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Fall of stone from the side of the shaft.

CONWOOD John - 1860 - 06/03/1860 – Age 30 - Loader. Old Park, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Fall of the bed called ‘veins’ in the thick Coal. He was loading a skip in a stall in the No.36 pit.

COOGANS Dennis - 1866 - 26/06/1866 – Age 18 - Drawer. Ellismuir, Bredisholm Coal Co., Baillieston, Ayrshire.  Fall of roof in his drawing road.

COOK Archibald - 1867 - 25/11/1867 – Age 19 - Collier. Cuttlehill, Henderson and Wallace, Lochgelly, Fife. Fall of roof.

COOK E. - 1863 - 07/08/1863 – Age 20 - Miner. Nesfield, Chesterfield and Midland Silkstone Colliery Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

COOK Frederick - 1866 - 11/08/1866 – Age 13 - Haulier. Cwmbran, John Lawrence, Cwmbran, Monmouth. Fell under trams (as far as it is known) on one on the surface roads and was found dead.

COOK George - 1865 - 09/06/1865 – Age 59 – Rolleyway man. Trimdon, Thomas Wood and Co., Easington, Durham. Explosion of firedamp.

COOK George - 1865 – 10/07/1865 – Age 37 - Miner. Denton, Trustees of the late Ellis Fletcher, Manchester, Lancashire. Roof falling on him as he was preparing for arching in the Jet Amber pit.

COOK George - 1866 – 31/10/1866 – Age 22 - Putter. Pelton, Lord Dunsany and Partners, Chester-le-Street, Durham. Killed by an explosion of firedamp in the Busty Bank Seam. 24 killed. Of Pit Houses.

COOK Jabez - 1867 – 08/07/1867 – Age 51 - Collier. Frysbottom, Frysbottom Co., Clutton, Somerset. On a Monday afternoon these were the only two men in the pit when water suddenly broke in and the men were sent for. Shifts were formed and succeeded each other with great zeal but it was not until the following Sunday that the bodies were recovered. They died most likely from suffocation and not from drowning. 2 killed. Left a widow and a child. The men, noting wet Coal, instinctively suspected danger but a boring ordered by the manager found nothing. Work Continued, but soon after water broke through and the accident occurred. Fry's Botton is said to have had a good safety record. The death of Jabez Cook "a member of the Congregation and much esteemed by all" is noted in the minute book of the Clutton Congregational Chapel. The man and the boy were buried together at the Clutton Parish Church 18/07/1867.

COOK James - 1861 - 27/02/1861 – Age 20. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Worsley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Rams mines. 9 killed.

COOK James - 1866 - 10/09/1866 – Age 50 - Miner. Lochside (ironstone), Merry and Cunningham, Kilburn Ayrshire.  Fall of ironstone at face.

COOK John - 1862 - 07/03/1862 - Collier. Tillicoultry, James Snowdowne, Tillicoultry, Clackmannan. Fall of roof while redding. 2 killed.

COOK John - 1864 - 08/09/1864 – Underlooker. Laffack J and J Johnson, St. Helens, Lancashire. He fell from a mouthing in the pit.

COOK John - 1868 - 26/03/1868 - Shifter. Wingate Grange, Executors of J Gully, Ferry Hill, Durham. Was taking a tub along engine bank and was caught by engine train.

COOK John - 1869 - 25/02/1869 – Age 33 - Collier. Cotes Park, James Oakes and Son, Alfreton, Derbyshire. Fall of roof.

COOK Joseph - 1861 - 11/06/1861 – Age 50 - Miner. Clay Cross, William Jackson, and Partners, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Suffocated in the No.2 black shale pit in Consequence of an inundation of water from old workings. Sealed him up for 22 days. 23 killed.

COOK Joseph - 1864 - 22/06/1864 – Age 36 - Miner. Edge Fold, Bridgewater Trust, Worsley, Lancashire. Roof falling in 7ft mine. Died 12th July.

COOK Joseph - 1868 - 19/06/1868 – Age 14 - Driver. Bedlington, Bedlington Coal Co., Blyth, Northumberland. Fall of stone. 2 killed.

COOK Joseph - 1869 - 03/07/1869 – Day Labourer. Peasley Cross, Messrs. Browne and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

COOK Philip - 1864 - 04/02/1864 – Age 22 - Loader. Snibston, Stephenson and Co., Leicester, Leicestershire. Fall of roof.

COOK Roger - 1868 - 22/10/1868 – Age 20 - Waggoner. Tyldesley, Astley and Tyldesley Co., Ltd., Tyldesley, Lancashire. Coal falling in the 6-feet mine.

COOK T. - 1862 - 14/08/1862 - Collier. Dukinfield, FDP Astley, Dukinfield, Cheshire. Fall of roof.

COOK Thomas - 1863 - 24/07/1863 – Age 25 - Collier. Haydock, Richard Evans and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of roof.

COOK W. - 1860 - 04/03/1860 – Age 66 - Miner. Baddesley, Dugdale Esq. Atherstone, Warwick. Fall of Coal.

COOK William - 1860 - 02/03/1860. Burradon Colliery, Burradon, Durham. Explosion of gas. 76 killed.

COOK William - 1865 - 05/05/1865 - Hewer. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co., Fence Houses, Durham. Crushed by tubs in engine plane.

COOKE Benjamin - 1866 - 09/10/1866 – Age 45 - Collier. Edge Green, Richard Evans and Co., St. Helens, Lancashire. Fall of Coal.

COOKE G. - 1869 - 07/05/1869 - Banksman. Victoria Colliery, J Dutson, Darlaston, Staffordshire. Pushed skip into pit shaft and followed it. Had neglected to adjust the iron fencing on pit waggon and thereby lost his life.

COOKE L. - 1862 - 27/08/1862 - Pikeman. Rectory Hall, Holcroft and Co., Kingswinsford, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal in thick Coal. He was trying to get down the overhanging coal with a pike when he ought to have used a picker and saved his life.

COOKE William - 1861 - 27/02/1861 – Age 20. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Worsley, Lancashire. Explosion of firedamp in Rams mines. 9 killed.

COOKE William jnr. - 1869 - 25/05/1869. Middle Sinking Pit, Cwmnantddu. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

COOKNALL Isaac - 1866 - 12/11/1866 – Age 20 - Collier. Cadley Hill, Hall and Boardman, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire. Explosion of gas.

COOKSON, Francis - 1864 - 27/09/1874 - Boy. Madeley Wood (ironstone), John Anstice and Co., Ironbridge, Shropshire. Skip became detached whilst coming up shaft. 9 killed.

COOLEY Charles - 1865 - 17/06/1864 – Age 28 - Collier. Glascote, Glascote Coal Co., Tamworth, Staffordshire. Fall of roof.

COOMBS Henry - 1865 - 30/06/1865. Small pit at Blaendare. Foul air.

COOMBS T - 1867 - 15/05/1867 – Age 15 - Putter. Mells Steedes, Howley and Co., Frome, Somerset. His work was to tip the hudges at the bottom of an incline and it is supposed that after eating his victuals he went asleep right across the crease and most likely when the slid came down the shoe of it went over his neck. There was evidently in this case as in the one immediately preceding it in this list a terrible absence of discipline.

COOPE William - 1865 - 15/09/1865. Middleton, Tetley and Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Falling down the shaft.

COOPE William Jnr - 1869 - 25/05/1869 - Bottom cutter. Cwmnantddu, Ebbw Vale Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp. 7 killed.

COOPER . - 1861 - 09/01/1861 - Collier. Brownhills, William Harrison, Walsall, Staffordshire. Suffocated with smoke from a fire which originated in an airway in the ‘Deep Coal’ workings of an adjoining pit. 6 killed.

COOPER A. - 1864 - 12/07/1864 – Age 14 - Collier. Eagle, Messrs. Cleaton, Great Bridge, Staffordshire. Overwinding. A key belonging to a crank of the valve-gear fell out whilst the boys were ascending the pit shaft which deprived the engine-man of all control of the engine. 3 killed one injured.

COOPER Benjamin - 1864 - 16/11/1864 – Age 17. Withymoor, Messrs. Nock, Withymoor, Staffordshire. Fell part way down shaft. The chain broke. 8 killed.

COOPER Blewit - 1860 – 13/02/1860 – Age 36 - Collier. Main Colliery, Knight and Abbotts, Ashton Vale, Somerset. A mass of Coal started off the side caused by super incumbent pressure.

COOPER David or Daniel - 1863 – 14/11/1863 – Age 52 – Furnaceman. Framwellgate, Marchioness of Londonderry, Durham. Falling down shaft rope breaking. 2 killed.

COOPER George - 1867 – 08/11/1867 – Age 27. Ferndale, David Davies and Son, Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Explosion of gas through one of the deceased taking the top off his lamp and exposing a naked light. 178 killed.

COOPER Griffith - 1867 – 10/09/1867 – Age 16 - Collier. Glyngaer, ED Williams, Pengam, Monmouth. Fall of bell mould.

COOPER J - 1868 - 23/07/1868 – Age 13 - Driver. Talk o’th’ Hill, North Staffordshire Coal Co., Newcastle, Staffordshire. Fell down staple pit.

COOPER J. - 1860 - 11/11/1860 - Miner. Norbury, Clayton and Brooks, Stockport, Cheshire. Explosion of firedamp.

COOPER J. - 1860 - 22/12/1860 - Miner. Norbury, Clayton and Brooks, Stockport, Cheshire. Fall of Coal.

COOPER J. - 1862 - 23/06/1862 – Age 29 - Pikeman. Darlaston Green (ironstone), S Mills, Darlaston, Staffordshire. Fall of ironstone measures. He had neglected to set timber which he had been requested to do a few minutes before the accident.

COOPER James - 1861 - 09/01/1861 - Collier. Brownhills, William Harrison, Walsall, Staffordshire. Suffocated with smoke from a fire which originated in an airway in the ‘Deep Coal’ workings of an adjoining pit. 6 killed.

COOPER John - 1860 - 19/04/1860. Oaks Barber and Co. Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof in the mine.

COOPER John - 1869 - 22/08/1869 – Age 40 – Shaftsman. Robinhood or Flimby Colliery, Flimby Colliery Co., Maryport, Cumberland. who, with others, was engaged in making repairs to the sets, when one of them having occasion to go to bank to seek assistance to let the crab rope down, the deceased stood on the clack piece door top of the (upper) forcing set to await his return, but had inadvertently not got himself placed clear of the descending cage, which on its reaching him knocked him off the pumps, and he fell to the bottom of the shaft.

COOPER Joseph - 1863 - 30/11/1863. Thrybergh Hall, Thrybergh Hall Coal Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Falling down shaft. 6 killed.

COOPER Joseph - 1867 - 28/01/1867 – Age 29- Sinker. Standish, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Wigan, Lancashire. An explosion.

COOPER Moses - 1863 - 04/02/1863 – Age 45- Sinker. Pentyrch, TW Booker and Co., Cardiff, Glamorgan. Fall of stage in shaft.

COOPER R - 1868 - 28/10/1868 – Age 15 - Collier Boy. Groveland, H Bagnall and Sons, Dudley, Port Worcestershire. Crushed to death by a skip.

COOPER Richard - 1862 - 30/12/1862 – Age 33 - Deputy. Whitworth, RS Johnson and Co., Spennymoor, Durham. Fall of stone while drawing timber.

COOPER Richard - 1867 - 19/10/1867 – Age 32 – Tunneller. Bromilow Field, Wigan Coal and Iron Co., Gidlow Lane, Wigan, Lancashire. Crushed by tubs.

COOPER S. - 1867 - 13/05/1867 - Pikeman. Cannock Chase, Cannock Chase Colliery Co., Walsall, Staffordshire. Injured by explosion of firedamp 29th Apr. Died this day.

COOPER Samuel - 1867 - 17/06/1867 – Age 25- Sinker. Britannia Main, J Barraclough, Adwalton, Yorkshire. Fell down pit.

COOPER T. - 1860 - 16/12/1860 – Age 13 - Horsedriver. Cleveland, J. Hill, Moseley Hole, Staffordshire. Fall of Coal (in the fire clay Coal).

COOPER T. - 1866 - 27/03/1866 – Age 41 - Bandsman. Fishley Colliery, Fishley Colliery Co., Pelsall, Staffordshire. Fell out of page whilst ascending.

COOPER T. - 1868 - 12/07/1868 – Age 30 – Bondsman. Blowers Green, B Cartwright, Dudley, Worcestershire. Injured 3rd by fall of Coal. Died this day.

COOPER Thomas - 1860 - 18/06/1860 – Age 22 - Pikeman. Twidale, Bagnall and Jesson, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp in No.1 pit on 11th May. Lingered till the 18th. June.

COOPER Thomas - 1862 - 14/03/1862 – Age 40 – Dataller. Ince Hall, Ince Hall Coal Co., Wigan, Lancashire. Fall of roof whilst drawing props.

COOPER Thomas - 1864 - 16/08/1864 – Age 25 – Onsetter. No.15, Ebbw Vale Iron Co., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. Killed by a piece of Coal.

COOPER Thomas - 1868 - 27/08/1868 – Age 30 - Labourer. Morton, William Jackson MP, Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Crushed by tub.

COOPER Thomas - 1869 - 22/01/1869 – Age 21 - Pikeman. Tibbington, J Howl, Tipton, Staffordshire. Explosion, of firedamp. 2 killed. Died this day.

COOPER W - 1864 - 28/05/1864 – Age 20 - Hooker-on. Groveland, J Bagnall and Sons, Tipton, Staffordshire. Fell down pit shaft from brooch Coal inset whilst in the act of putting a skip into cage.

COOPER W. - 1863 - 05/12/1863 - Deputy. Tipton Green, Willetts and Hammond, Tipton, Staffordshire. Explosion of firedamp 19th Nov. Died this day.

COOPER William - 1866 - 02/10/1866 – Age 15 - Collier. Snibston, G Stephenson and Co., Leicester, Leicestershire. Fall of stone in stall.

COOPER William - 1866 - 17/01/1866 – Age 49 - Collier. Clay Cross, William Jackson MP, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Fall of stone from roof of stall.

COOPER William - 1869 - 06/04/1869 – Age 25 - Loader. Coleorton, William Worsick, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Run over, tub upset.