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STIRLING John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 19/04/1890 – Pitheadman. Common No. 10, Eglinton Iron Co., Cumnock, Ayrshire. Fell off locomotive and was run over by a waggon.

STIRLING Thomas - 1896 - 10/12/1896 – Age 56 – Miner. Hallhill No. 1, William Baird and Co. Ltd., Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

STIRRUP Hugh (injured) - 1891 - 20/01/1891. Wood, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Haydock, Lancashire. Two men were injured in the shaft by an explosion of gas when the barometer read 29.50 inches. They were clearing the shaft of ice and they fired some gas that was coming from an old mouthing, of which they were not aware. The incident was caused by 'Naked lights'. A serious explosion took place at the pit when Hugh Stirrup of Haydock and John Cunliffe of Ashton were burnt in the shaft. They were descending, to take a riding at an old mouthing with lighted torches, which ignited the gas. They were badly burnt but managed to hold on until they were rescued. It was found that the pit was full of gas and the work was suspended for the whole of the next day and the gas was cleared by air pipes. (St. Helens Lantern).

STITT Alexander - 1898 - 22/04/1898 – Age 15 – Drawer. Gateside, JI McConnel, Dumfries. Fall of roof at working face.

STOBBS Ralph - 1897 - 02/03/1897 – Age 27 – Onsetter. Usworth, J Bowes and Partners Ltd., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. This accident happened at a hanging, on about the mid-shaft in the upcast shaft. The entrance is protected by sliding gates, easily worked. There are electric signals to the surface and stoppers worked by the foot to prevent the tube coming too near as they approach the shaft, down a very slight incline, everything is within easy reach. On this occasion the stoppers failed to act although it was said they had been greased shortly before. The deceased signalled the cage away and he was in the act of closing the gate when the tubs glided up to him and knocked him down the shaft. Had he closed the gates, as is customary before signalling, he would only have been pushed against them by the tubs.

STOBBS Robert - 1890 - 11/04/1890 – Age 52 – Waggonman. Saint Hilda, Harton Coal Co., Co.Durham. Run over by waggon and killed.

STOCKS J. - 1894 - 29/05/1894 – Age 69 – Collier. Waterloo Main, Brooks and Pickup, Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

STOCKS James - 1890 - 09/10/1890 – Age 63 – Bottomer. Billyford, Deans and Moore, Haddington. Crushed by cage. 11.30 am.

STOCKTON John - 1895 - 28/07/1895 – Age 34 – Collier. Nook Astley & Tyldesley Coal and Salt Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Alleged to have been struck behind the ear by a piece of coal which flew from the face on 2nd January 1894. Died on 28th July 1895.

STOCKWELL S. - 1890 - 01/02/1890 – Age 14 – Driver. Allerton Main, T and RW Bower, Leeds, Yorkshire. Crushed by tubs.

STODART T. - 1893 - 18/08/1893 – Age 26 – Sinker. Warren House, J Brown and Co., Rotherham, Yorkshire. Fell out of trunk in sinking shaft. 3 killed.

STODDART Robert - 1893 - 06/06/1893 – Age 24 – Hewer. Medmosley, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Medmosley, Co.Durham. Died today from injuries received by a fall of stone on August 25th, 1891.

STOKER John - 1894 - 12/09/1894 – Age 16 – Driver. Black Mill, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Consett, Co.Durham. He got on to the wrong side of his set and was crushed to death between the tub and the wall.

STOKER John Nicholas - 1891 - 08/09/1891 – Age 28 – Hewer. Brandon, C Strakers and Love, Durham, Co.Durham. Fall of stone at a breaker when holing into goaf. 11.30 am.

STOKER Joseph - 1890 - 14/03/1890 – Age 40 – Hewer. Urpeth Busty, Charles Perkins and Partners, Urpeth, Co.Durham. Fall of coal. Deceased was working at coal face, while a deputy was preparing a battery to fire a shot, which in an unaccountable way the charge exploded bringing the coal down on Stoker and killing him. 7.0 am.

STOKER Robert - 1891 - 25/05/1891 – Age 50 – Hewer. Victoria Garesfield, Priestman and Peile, Garesfield, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. Fall of stone from between four slips between the last crown tree and the face. 10.40 am.

STOKES Henry - 1898 - 11/11/1898 – Age 32 - Jumperman. Gunnislake Granite Quarry, S Pearson and Sons Ltd., Cornwall. He stumbled over a stone when passing a travelling steam crane, and in trying to save himself he threw his arm over the rail along which the crane was travelling, his arm was severed just below the elbow and his back broken. He died the following day in the Tavistock Cottage Hospital.

STOKES J. - 1899 - 29/03/1899 – Age 29 – Driver. Tunnel Chalk Quarry, Tunnel Portland Cement Co. Ltd., Essex. Found dying between the rails of a tramway. It appeared as if he had been run over by three empty wagons which his horse had drawn on but no one saw the accident.

STOKES James - 1898 - 16/09/1898 – Age 43 – Collier. Black Park, Black Park Colliery Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was crushed against a prop by a piece of coal, which had fallen off the face from between two steps of faults crossing each other at right angles. He expired a few minutes after being released.

STOKES Thomas - 1891 - 06/03/1891 – Age 35 – Dataler. Bamfurlong Cross, Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The contractor had spragged up some tubs on a steep tunnel, they were driving by means of loose props and rails. The tubs suddenly broke away when the deceased was at the handle of the winch to which the tubs were connected and the handle flying round caught him on the head. 3.30 am.

STOKOE Joseph - 1893 - 01/05/1893 – Age 16 – Driver. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co.Durham. Horse fell, which ended tub up and crushed him to death.

STOKOE or STOKER Johnathan - 1892 - 08/03/1892 – Age 18 - Switch keeper. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co.Durham. Tubs getting off the way broke a coupling and caused part of the set to run back which crushed him against the side of the road.

STONE George - 1898 - 08/11/1898 – Age 57 - Miner. Mill Close Lead, Wass and Son, Derbyshire. He left his working place, to go to the part of the mine used as a cabin, and shortly afterwards he was found injured and a box of detonators exploded. He died 16th November.

STONE Joseph - 1896 - 16/12/1896 – Age 45 – Platelayer. Mardy Lockets, Merthyr Collieries (1894) Ltd., Glamorgan. Ran over by waggon, having been struck down by a sprag, with which he was attempting to sprag a wheel.

STONE Robert - 1899 - 08/07/1899 – Age 37 – Labourer. Admiralty Stone Quarry, W Hill and Co., Dorset. A stone falling from a skip, which was being hoisted by a steam crane, struck his head causing fatal injuries. The supervision by the ganger was very unsatisfactory, with regard to this class of accident, and the engineers evidently had not given the question sufficient attention.

STONE Theophilus - 1895 - 28/02/1895 – Age 33 – Miner. Levant (metalliferous), Levant Mine Adventurers, Cornwall. Descending by the main engine, he appears to have slipped and was crushed between the platform.

STONES Edward - 1897 - 17/02/1897 – Age 19 - Hooker on. Leycett Fair, Lady Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Crushed by tubs in engine dip.

STONES James - 1891 - 01/05/1891 – Age 60 – Miner. Ashtonfield No. 2, Bridgewater Trustees, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Died today from paralysis arising from a slight injury to his back by roof from a slip, April 5th. Inquest attended.

STONES John - 1897 - 31/03/1897 – Age 19 - Waggon minder. Hutton Henry, Hutton Henry Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. When uncoupling two wagons another two, which were standing behind him, moved away and he was crushed between the buffers.

STONES John - 1899 - 11/01/1899 – Age 22 – Putter. Brandon, Starkers and Love, Co.Durham. With several other lads he had got out of the set, which takes them inbye at the South Junction. After the set started again he attempted to get in and was knocked down and killed.

STONES William - 1893 - 01/11/1893 – Age 36 – Hewer. Midridge, Weardale Iron Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co.Durham. Fall of stone and coal at a breaker by the side of an old crosscut.

STOP George - 1897 - 25/09/1897 – Age 58 – Loader. Teversal Top Hard Coal, Stanton Iron Works Co., Nottinghamshire. Fall of roof. Deceased was bending over a tram at the gate end when a piece of stone fell from the roof and struck him. He died the same day.

STOPFORD Enoch - 1895 - 23/01/1895 – Age 22 – Collier. Broomstair, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Lancashire. In working place he had knocked props out, some roof fell leaving a piece up, deceased was prising this down inserting bar into a joint of a slip when the falling piece struck him.

STORER George - 1899 - 16/05/1899 – Age 65 – Staller. Griff No. 4, Griff Colliery Co., Warwick. Fall of side. While repairing an airway the timber set for supporting the side, which was overhanging, gave way and allowed the rise side to fall over.

STOREY C. - 1890 - 24/02/1890 – Age 42 – Enginedriver. Lofthouse, Lofthouse Coal Co., Wakefield, Yorkshire. Injured by loco. Died 20th Mar.

STOREY Fred - 1895 - 08/11/1895 – Age 29 – Onsetter. Usworth, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Usworth, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. On the arrival of the sett, near the shaft bottom, the lad neglected to put in the maul drags before he knocked off the tail rope at the back of the sett, when the tubs ran on and jammed the deceased against the shaft wall.

STOREY Henry - 1898 - 07/08/1898 – Age 36 – Hewer. Cambois, Cowpen Coal Co. Ltd., Northumberland. Inquest attended. When hewing, in a broken jud, he requested his brother to hand him some timber to set, before the latter could do so a large stone fell away without any warning from between two slips. The working was reported to be well timbered, up to within half a yard from the face, by the deputy who had examined the place a short time previously.

STOREY Joseph - 1892 - 19/12/1892 – Age 26 – Collier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. Fall of side while fixing a sprag.

STOREY Martin - 1895 - 23/06/1895 – Age 56 – Hewer. Willington, Strakers and Love, Co.Durham. Died in his working place from natural causes.

STORRIE David - 1897 - 17/06/1897 – Age 36 – Miner. Bonnyton No. 8, Gilmour Anderson and Co., Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

STOTT John - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 32 – Haulier. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

STOTT Thomas - 1890 - 02/06/1890 – Age 28 – Hewer. Alexindrina, Marquess of Londonderry, Fence Houses, Co.Durham. Fall of stone while preparing to put in some timber at loose end of jud.

STOUT Christopher - 1896 - 24/11/1896 – Age 44 – Shifter. Pagebank, Bell Bros. Ltd., Co.Durham. Spine injured when riding on a tub while driving a pony, owing to the tub lifting and crushing him between it and the roof.

STOUT Thomas - 1896 - 02/10/1896 – Age 52 – Shifter. Eppleton, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. He was levering some top stone down, with a plank, when the plank slipped and he fell with his head against a stone and dislocated his neck.

STOWRROW Isaac - 1892 - 17/11/1892 – Age 53 – Miner. Langbaraugh (metalliferous), Bradley Bros., Ayton, Co.Durham. While sitting in the engine house, some teeth of a spur wheel broke striking him on the head, he resumed work in about a fortnight but died from compression of the brain. 25th Dec.

STRACHAN Francis - 1898 - 25/08/1898. Ayr Drumley No. 1, George Taylor and Co., Ayrshire. When placing a hutch on the cage, the engineman started the engine and the hutch fell back on him.

STRACHAN Peter - 1890 - 16/04/1890 – Age 43 – Miner. Broomlands No. 8, Bourtreehill Coal Co., Dreghorn, Ayrshire. Fall of roof at working face.

STRACHAN Robert (non-fatal) - 1890 - 03/02/1890 – Miner. Gauchalland No. 2, Gauchalland Coal Co., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

STRAIN John - 1898 - 19/08/1898 – Age 54 – Shiftman. Wyndham Iron Ore, Wyndham Mining Co. Ltd., Cumberland. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was descending a staple pit when the winding rope broke. The rope was of steel wire, flat 3.5 inches by five eighths, and although it had been in use nearly four years, it had done very little work. It was part of Strain's duty to examine this rope daily, and to oil it every five or six weeks, but he had never reported it as defective, nor made any complaint concerning it. A subsequent examination showed that it was in a very bad condition and it is difficult to understand how the deceased, who was regarded as a trusted and competent workman, could have failed to observe the broken wires when applying oil in the ordinary way.

STRANACH Henry - 1892 - 06/01/1892 – Age 50 – Hewer. Ryhope, Ryhope Coal Co. Ltd., Sunderland, Co.Durham. He was knocked down by a horse in Nov. 1889, paralysis afterwards set in and he died 6th Jan.

STRANDLING Donald - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 58 – Repairer. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

STRANG James (non-fatal) - 1893 - 02/12/1893 – Age 37 – Miner. Greyrigg, Greyrigg Coal Co., Stirling. Fall of stone.

STRANG Thomas - 1899 - 30/06/1899 – Age 49 – Quarryman. Swallowdrum Sandstone Quarry, James Stewart, Fife. A loose stone, weighing about 23 cwt, about which the deceased was engaged, toppled over and broke both his legs and he died on July 29th.

STRATHIE James (non-fatal) - 1894 - 28/02/1894 – Age 25 – Miner. Forkneuk & Hopetoun, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of firedamp. 17 days off.

STRAUGHAN Robert - 1890 - 03/01/1890 – Age 41 – Stoneman. Langley Park, Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Langley Park, Co.Durham. While preparing to drive an adit drift a fall of earth took place burying him for some hours.

STRAW James - 1898 - 11/03/1898 – Age 20 – Drawer. Auldhouseburn Bankhead, Cairntable Gas Coal Co. Ltd., Ayrshire. A miner holed through an old workings containing water, owing to the failure to keep boreholes in advance, in terms of General Rule 13. 3 killed.

STRAW John William - 1897 - 31/12/1897 – Age 27 – Banksman. Moor Green, Barber Walker and Co., Nottinghamshire. It was said that deceased had received injuries at the mine. There were no traces of injury externally either before of after death and a post mortem examination revealed the fact that he died from natural causes. Verdict of jury, "died from heart disease".

STREET Edgar - 1891 - 24/11/1891 – Age 20 – Collier. Penrikyber, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (bastard rock) on bending, where some timbers had been taken out the previous day, the roof having settled and appearing thoroughly secure. 6-ft seam. Long wall.

STREET Thomas - 1892 - 14/11/1892 – Age 34 – Engineman. Cannock & Rugeley, Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co., Hednesford, Staffordshire. He had his foot bruised by a piston rod falling upon it. He died from blood poisoning on Dec. 18th.

STREETER James (injured) - 1894 - 05/04/1894 – Age 50 – Engineman. Dewsnap, Dukinfield Coal and Cannel Co. Ltd., Dukinfield, Cheshire. Crushed between trucks, while pushing one truck another ran against him, which he had left without the brake on.

STRETTON W. - 1892 - 14/07/1892 – Age 50 - Rock ripper. Essington, Holly Bank Colliery Co., Essington, Staffordshire. A fall of roof when ripping the brow.

STRETTON Walter - 1895 - 06/09/1895 – Age 21 - Asst. pitman. Pemberton, J Blundell and Sons, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Whilst engaged with three others coupling up the 18 inch lift, in the pumping shaft, a portion of the chock, which they had placed to support the 20 inch lift above, fell upon the deceased who was standing on the hoppit causing him to fall a distance of 36 yards.

STRICK T.S. - 1896 - 10/09/1896 – Age 24 – Manager. Shelton Rowhurst No. 1, Shelton Coal Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Killed by carbonic oxide gas, probably produced by spontaneous combustion.

STRICKLAND James (injured) - 1890 - 02/05/1890 – Age 13 - Asst. hooker on. Scot Lane No. 5 Arley, William Wood and Son, Blackrod, Lancashire. Injured by a descending cage as he was wrongfully crossing the pit bottom with the cages in motion.

STRICKLAND John - 1894 - 25/01/1894 – Age 25 – Collier. Ebbw Vale No. 6, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. Fall of roof at the face of his working place in the Bydelog Seam. The stone (measuring about 8 feet on two adjoining sides and 6 feet on the other two by about 13.5 inches thick) dropped down in one solid block upon him. It discharged two or three props which were under it. There were props set across the face about 3 feet apart, as usual in these workings, although the roof is a strong bastard rock.

STRICKLAND Robert - 1895 - 19/02/1895 – Age 50 - Not employed. Balbardie, Henry Walker and Cameron, Linlithgow. Was close at hand when two steam boilers exploded.

STRIKE Henry - 1892 - 26/08/1892 – Age 32 – Collier. Park Slip, North’s Navigation Collieries (1889) Ltd., Tondu, Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 112 killed.

STRIKE John - 1891 - 20/01/1891 – Age 22 – Miner. Kelly Bray (metalliferous), Callington United Mines Ltd., Callington, Cornwall. Deceased and his comrade were sent by the agent to secure the 70-fathom level with some half sets of timber, under old workings at the western end of which there was a large pile of stuff. Being both experienced miners they proceeded with the work and had just completed it as they thought satisfactorily about 9 p.m. when there was a loud crash and a large quantity of stuff came away completely burying Strike. He was quite dead when extricated about half an hour afterwards. Subsequent inspection showed that the timbering was not well done.

STRIKE William (non-fatal) - 1893 - 29/12/1893 – Age 63 – Miner. Devon Great Consols (metalliferous), Devon Great Consols Ltd., Tavistock, Devon. He strained himself by lifting a rock in his working place.

STRINGER Alfred - 1892 - 16/06/1892 – Age 54 – Collier. Towneley, Brooks and Pickup, Towneley, Lancashire. Drawing props when a quantity of roof fell on to him. Came away from a slip undetected. Fall 6 foot long, 2 foot wide, 14 inches thick.

STRINGER Henry - 1891 - 10/01/1891 – Age 40 – Brusher. Saltwell, Earl of Dudley, Dudley, Worcestershire. Explosion of gunpowder. Died 19th Jan.

STRINGER J. - 1896 - 25/08/1896 – Age 55 – Labourer. Emley Moor, Jaggar and Co., Yorkshire. Crushed between waggons on sidings.

STRINGFELLOW James - 1890 - 25/07/1890 – Age 53 – Collier. Crawford No. 2, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inquest attended. Deceased had gone on working too long without setting timber and just as his drawer was bringing in a bar for him a stone fell from a slip from the roof.

STRINGFELLOW James - 1896 - 07/12/1896 – Age 28 – Collier. Outwood, Thomas Fletcher and Sons, Lancashire. Fall of coal from face, not sufficiently spragged from back, which ought to have been seen.

STRINGFELLOW John (injured) - 1891 - 04/09/1891 – Age 19 – Dayman. Allen’s Green, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Radcliffe, Lancashire. Leg broken by the side of a level falling where he was helping to repair. Inspection and inquiry.

STRINGFELLOW Noah - 1895 - 23/12/1895 – Age 44 – Sawyer. Pendleton, Andrew Knowles and Sons Ltd., Lancashire. Died from natural causes, heart disease.

STRONG Joseph - 1893 - 16/09/1893 – Age 55 – Shifter. South Tanfield, James Joicey and Co. Ltd., South Tanfield, Co.Durham. Inspection made. Deceased was injured on the hip by a piece of ramble falling when he was sitting between two props. Died on 8th October.

STRONG Joseph - 1894 - 30/07/1894 – Age 16 - Collier’s boy. Windsor Level, Aberdare Works and Collieries Co., Aberdare, Glamorgan. Fall of side (top coal 9 feet x 18 inches x 18 inches thick) which he was said to be taking down, Two feet nine seam. Died 1st August.

STRONG William - 1896 - 20/07/1896 – Age 55 – Deputy. Seaham, Marquis of Londonderry, Co.Durham. Died suddenly in lamp house on way to work, from heart disease.

STROODLEY William (injured) - 1895 - 12/12/1895 – Roadman. Rudy Merthyr, Mortgagees of Rudy Merthyr, Glamorgan. He was riding (contrary to rule) on the journey in the engine plane when the bull chain broke. The trams running back he was thrown off and killed. A roadman, William Stroodley, who was in a manhole was also seriously injured. 1 killed, 1 injured.

STRUTH David (non-fatal) - 1891 - 26/11/1891 – Age 25 – Miner. Holmes, Holmes Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of gas. 14 days off.

STRUTHERS Robert - 1891 - 03/08/1891 – Age 37 – Contractor. Haughead, Haughead Coal Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Fall of coal.

STUART John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 29/01/1890 - Engine attdnt. Haughead, Haughead Coal Co., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. His hand was caught by coal cleaning machinery while oiling it.

STUBBIN W. - 1893 - 16/06/1893 – Age 29 – Collier. Wharncliffe Carlton, R Craik and Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of coal.

STUBB INCHES Michael - 1898 - 08/02/1898 – Age 48 – Dataller. Meadow, Lamb and Moore, Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was resting under some bars, which were set about two feet apart in the haulage level where some men were engaged lowering the roof. A stone fell upon him from over the bars injuring his back. He died in the infirmary the same day.

STUBBS Benjamin - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 17 - Door boy. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

STUBBS William - 1895 - 26/03/1895 – Age 24 – Fireman. Clough Hall No. 18, Birchenwood Colliery Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. Suffocated by firedamp.

STYAN William - 1898 - 10/11/1898 – Age 52 – Owner. Shawl Limestone Quarry, William Styan, North Yorkshire. He was going to the quarry to see some repairs, that were being done to an engine, and must have mistaken his way owing to a fog and fell over into the quarry, a distance of 20 foot, receiving such injuries that he died on the 13th inst.

SULLIVAN Dan - 1895 - 10/07/1895 – Age 23 – Ripper. Crayshaw’s Castle, Crayshaw’s Bros. Cyfartha Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp on a main haulage road where they were engaged ripping. Naked lights. 3 killed.

SULLIVAN Jeremiah - 1890 - 06/02/1890 – Age 14 – Collier. Llanerch, Partridge Jones and Co. Ltd., Pontypool, Monmouth. Explosion of firedamp at naked lights in the No. 4 heading, off Cooke's slope, about 8.30 a.m. after the men had been at work in their places two to two and a half hours. 176 killed.

SULLIVAN Jeremiah - 1894 - 15/02/1894 – Age 45 – Pitman. Tawd Vale, Tawd Vale Colliery Co. Ltd., Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquiry made. He was engaged, with another man, cleaning the bearers of the shaft using the cage in which was placed a tub, the cage was stationary part way down the shaft, and during a conversation between the two men the deceased appears to have unthinkingly made a step backwards and stepped over the end of cage and fell down the pit.

SULLIVAN John - 1898 - 28/12/1898 – Age 22 – Rider. Universal, Universal Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Run over by journey, having apparently fallen off while riding on a portion of the plane where riding was not permitted.

SULLIVAN John - 1899 - 23/11/1899 – Age 27 – Miner. Duneen Bay Barytes, J Cameron Swan and Co., Co. Cork, Ireland. Whilst removing debris (byrites, rock boiler ashes) from bottom of shaft, 50 feet deep, the whole of the debris ran out, some of the ashes had reheated in the shaft. All the men were severely burnt by the hot ashes. 4 killed.

SULLIVAN Michael - 1899 - 23/11/1899 – Age 22 – Miner. Duneen Bay Barytes, J Cameron Swan and Co., Co. Cork, Ireland. Whilst removing debris (byrites, rock boiler ashes) from bottom of shaft, 50 feet deep, the whole of the debris ran out, some of the ashes had reheated in the shaft. All the men were severely burnt by the hot ashes. 4 killed.

SULLIVAN Patsey - 1893 - 11/04/1893 – Rider. Great Western, Great Western Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an underground fire. 63 killed.

SULLIVAN Timothy - 1894 - 23/06/1894 – Age 47 – Labourer. Albion, Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd., Pontypridd, Glamorgan. By an explosion. 290 killed.

SUMMER Stephen - 1892 - 24/10/1892 – Age 44 – Fireman. Hindley Green, John Scowcroft and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was assisting to change a broken bar when a fall occurred knocking out the three next bars and falling on the deceased.

SUMMERS A. - 1896 - 09/11/1896 – Age 28 – Banksman. Hemsworth, New Hemsworth Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fell into shaft while sending bars down from the surface landing.

SUMMERS Alfred - 1891 - 07/01/1891 – Age 25 – Brakesman. Ferndale No. 1, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Ferndale, Glamorgan. Crushed between waggons on the surface sidings. He had brought down three empties which, owing to the frost, stopped on a crossing. He then sent away some more waggons on the adjoining line, placing a pole between so as to have them pushed away, when the pole slipped he was caught between the buffers.

SUMMERS H. - 1891 - 19/10/1891 – Age 23 – Trammer. Dodsworth Silkstone, Old Silkstone & Dodworth Coal Co., Barnsley, Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SUMMERS John - 1893 - 01/03/1893 – Age 18 - Waggon lowerer. Bamfurlong Cross, Tetley and Co. Ltd., Wigan, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was in the act of stepping under the buffers of two railway waggons, to couple them, when the locomotive was shunting some four other waggons to the same siding. There appeared to have been some carelessness on the brakeman’s part who joined the waggons up without giving warning.

SUMMERS Thomas - 1890 - 14/03/1890 – Age 33 – Hewer. Pegswood, SH Fraser, Pegswood, Northumberland. Fall of stone.

SUMMERS Thomas - 1899 – 01/12/1899 – 25 – Hewer. Dunston Swalwell, Garesfield Coal Co., Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. A two decked cage was loaded with men, the signal to ascend had been given when someone shouted that three tubs had broken away from a full set which was landing at the shaft bottom. In spite of the onsetter's remonstrance some of the men jumped out and Summers and another man were knocked into the sump.

SUMMERS Walter - 1895 – 23/01/1895 – Age 16 – Carting boy. Braysdown, Daubney and Scobell, Braysdown, Somerset. Deceased and another boy were passing an empty tram, up an incline. Two other lads were bringing two full trams from the workings to the top of incline and being unaware of each other's approach their teams collided and ran against the stop blocks which they broke, running wild down the incline they met the empty tram which deceased and the other boy were bringing up resulting in deceased being run over while the other boy got clear.

SUMMERSCALES Henry - 1893 – 04/07/1893 – Age 59. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas. 139 killed.

SUMNER James - 1891 – 04/01/1891 – Age 46 – Collier. Bickershaw, Ackers Whitley and Co. Ltd., Leigh, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was found lying in the cellar of the engine house immediately under the hole through which the winding rope passes but he was not able to explain how he got there. It is thought that he was hiding his pipe when the wind blew him through the hole and he fell into the space below. Injured November 1890. 5.40 am.

SUNTER Nathan - 1897 – 16/02/1897 – Age 20 – Hanger on. Middridge, Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Right leg and back bruised by tub elevator attachment. Died same day.

SURTEES Jervis - 1890 – 04/02/1890 – Age 23 – Hewer. Tudhoe, Weardale Iron Co. Ltd., Spennymoor, Co.Durham. Fall of stone from a slip while he was sounding it, he had removed some timber.

SURTEES Levi - 1895 – 11/06/1895 – Age 15 – Driver. Murton, South Hetton Coal Co., Co.Durham. Head crushed between tub and baulk while sliding on limbers outbye.

SUSSEX Edwin - 1890 – 02/07/1890 – Age 20 – Collier. Merthyr Vale, Nixon’s Navigation Co. Ltd., Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan. Fall of roof (clift, 9 foot long next to coal face) from between two slants which met Props on each end of the fall and gob wall 4 to 5 foot back. 4 foot seam, 5 foot 4 inches thick. Longwall.

SUTCH William - 1898 – 03/10/1898 – Age 23 – Collier. White Moss, White Moss Coal Co. Ltd., Rainford, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. They were starting to take out a pillar and failed to secure the roof behind them before staring on the coal. As they advanced with the coal they reached a break in the roof and the whole working place came in upon them. Strong timber should have been set before starting but both men and officials relied on the strength of the unsupported roof. 2 killed.

SUTCLIFFE Benjamin - 1897 – 09/08/1897 – Age 19 – Collier. Linnyshaw, Bridgewater Trustees, Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place between slips known to be there. Insufficiently propped.

SUTCLIFFE Benjamin - 1897 – 16/07/1897 – Age 19 – Collier. Jubilee, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Fall of roof in working place from between break and slip known to be there. Large area unpropped.

SUTCLIFFE L. - 1892 – 21/01/1892 – Age 63 – Collier. Medhurst Kippax, Kippax Lime Co., Leeds, Yorkshire. Fall of stone.

SUTCLIFFE W. - 1895 – 31/12/1895 – Labourer. Granny Hill (quarry), Messrs Farrer, Yorkshire. Explosion of boiler attached to crane.

SUTHERLAND James (non-fatal) - 1890 - 08/02/1890 – Age 18 - Attending coal cutting machine. Springbank, Springbank Coal Co. Lanarkshire. Fall of stone 9 days off.

SUTHERLAND James (non-fatal) - 1892 - 24/03/1892 – Age 37 – Collier. Mosside, Gavin Paul and Sons, Linlithgow. Explosion of gunpowder and dynamite shots. 31 days off, 2 injured.

SUTHERLAND John (non-fatal) - 1893 - 26/01/1893 – Age 16 – Drawer. Newbattle, Lothian Coal Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. Jammed by hutch. 56 days off.

SUTTON Albert - 1895 - 08/01/1895 – Age 39 – Screenman. Leycett, Madeley Coal and Iron Co. Ltd., Staffordshire. While taking truck from screen with horse he fell in front of the truck after uncoupling the horse.

SUTTON James - 1896 - 27/01/1896 – Age 38 – Ostler. Ferndale Nos 7 & 8, D Davis and Sons Ltd., Glamorgan. Explosion of firedamp. 57 killed.

SUTTON John - 1896 - 30/04/1896. Micklefield, Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SUTTON John. H. - 1891 - 13/06/1891 – Age 29 – Sinker. Edmondsley, Edmondsley Coal Co. Ltd., Chester-le-Street, Co.Durham. The banksman, in bringing a kibble on a tram back from the waste heap, ran it against a chock which upset the kibble and threw the tram down the shaft. 2 killed. 8.15 am.

SUTTON Joseph - 1890 - 05/05/1890 – Age 16 - Horse driver. Biddulph Valley Havelock, R Heath and Sons, Biddulph, Staffordshire. Run over by tubs. He had not the proper number of lockers in.

SUTTON Reuben - 1890 - 20/03/1890 – Age 14 – Driver. Coxlodge, Burradon & Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd., Coxlodge, Northumberland. Killed by fall of stone from the roof when leading his pony. 9.30 am.

SUTTON S. - 1896 - 20/03/1896 – Age 50 – Collier. Wombwell Main, Wombwell Main Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SUTTON Samuel - 1890 - 27/09/1890 – Age 14 – Driver. Glapwell, Sheepbridge Iron and Coal Co., Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Crushed between the side of a tub and a prop. Supposed to have been kneeling down to do something when the tub caught his head and jammed it against the prop.

SUTTON Thomas (injured) - 1891 - 20/02/1891 – Age 41 – Miner. Nook Rowley, Broad Oak Colliery Co. Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Leg broken by roof from a slip. Inspection and inquiry.

SUTTON William - 1891 - 25/07/1891 – Age 20 – Labourer. Victoria No. 5, Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., Ebbw Vale, Monmouth. Fall of roof, in consequence of a sudden squeeze at a parting where he and others were loading timber into trams to send into the workings. The examiner had been at the place within two hours previously and noticed nothing wrong.

SWAIN Charles - 1896 - 08/05/1896 – Age 52 – Labourer. Ham Hill Stone (quarry), Ham Hill Stone Quarry, Somerset. He, with two other men, who were more or less injured, was engaged removing heading rubbish from the surface or over burden when through a vent formation a quantity of rock and sand fell knocking out the wheeling planks and staging and precipitating them on to the debris below. Compensation under the Employers Liability Act was awarded to deceased’s relations as well as to one of the injured men.

SWALLOW J. - 1897 - 27/10/1897 – Age 63 – Signalman. Ingham, ET Ingham, Yorkshire. Pushed into sump by tubs which then fell on him.

SWALLOW James - 1892 - 04/08/1892 – Age 21 – Contractor. Ravens Lodge, J Haigh, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Tubbing burst. 6 killed.

SWALLOW John - 1892 - 04/08/1892 – Age 17 – Contractor. Ravens Lodge, J Haigh, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Tubbing burst. 6 killed.

SWALLOW John - 1892 - 04/08/1892 – Age 23 – Contractor. Ravens Lodge, J Haigh, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Tubbing burst. 6 killed.

SWALLOW R. - 1892 – 04/08/1892 – Age 49 – Contractor. Ravens Lodge, J Haigh, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Tubbing burst. 6 killed.

SWALLOW William Henry - 1893 – 04/07/1893 – Age 25. Coombs, ET Ingham, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Explosion of gas. 139 killed.

SWAN Alexander - 1893 – 11/04/1893 – Engineman. Heathery, Knowe Ferrier and Strain, Baillieston, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof on road.

SWAN Henry - 1896 - 08/06/1896 – Age 20 – Sinker. Bowhill, Bowhill Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. While assisting to move a single cylinder vertical beam pumping engine off centre, by moving the fly wheel, he fell on the wheel and was crushed.

SWAN John (non-fatal) - 1890 - 08/04/1890 – Age 14 – Drawer. Addiwell No. 25 Boghead, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., Linlithgow. Run over by tubs. 187 days off.

SWAN John - 1890 - 03/06/1890 – Age 15 - Helper up. Littleburn, North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., Co.Durham. Crushed between two tubs on an incline while assisting a putter.

SWAN John - 1890 - 22/04/1890 – Age 25 – Engineman. Greenlea Jordonhill, James Dunlop and Co. Ltd., Maryhill, Lanarkshire. Caught by flywheel owing to the engine creeping away.

SWANWICK James - 1894 - 12/07/1894 – Age 16 – Platelayer. Bentink, New Hucknall Colliery Co., Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Four full waggons of bricks were being lowered down the sidings, deceased attempted to put a sprag in one wheel and appears to have fallen under the waggon.

SWEENEY Daniel (non-fatal) - 1890 - 31/10/1890 – Age 19 – Filler. Addiwell No. 29 Newliston, Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., Linlithgow. Fall of roof. 40 days off.

SWEENEY Edward - 1891 - 23/10/1891 – Age 45 – Miner. Southerhouse No. 2, Robert Pettigrew, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof at working face.

SWEENEY Patrick - 1891 - 14/10/1891 – Age 48 – Bogieman. Dalziel, Wishaw Coal Co., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Fell in some unexplained way in front of his bogie and was run over.

SWEENY Dan (non-fatal) - 1891 - 07/04/1891 – Age 18 – Drawer. Broxburn, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Struck by brake handle. 23 days off.

SWIFT Charles - 1896 - 30/04/1896 – Age 35 – Micklefield. Joseph Cliffe and Sons, Yorkshire. Explosion of firedamp. 63 killed.

SWIFT J. - 1897 - 07/01/1897 – Age 52 – Ripper. Kiveton Park, Kiveton Park Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of side. 2 killed.

SWIFT John - 1894 - 22/11/1894 – Age 17 – Screener. Hazard, North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Fence Houses, Co.Durham. Crushed between truck and screen leg while letting it out from under the screens.

SWIFT John - 1895 - 18/06/1895 – Age 63 – Collier. Deep, St. Helens Colliery Co. Ltd., St. Helens, Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. He was wedging coal down, across the face of his road, when the roof fell from a slip on the head of the coal he was working, which could not have been detected. His place was fairly well timbered.

SWIFT John - 1899 - 14/11/1899 – Age 53 – Browman. Pewfall, Richard Evans and Co. Ltd., Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Inspection made. He went under the staging of the brow to clean dust off the weighing beam and fell over the unprotected edge of some planking, a distance of 18 feet to below. He expired on the way to the hospital.

SWIFT Joseph - 1899 - 20/06/1899 – Age 40 – Collier. Low Stubbin, Earl Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. Run over by waggons when walking along railway.

SWINBANK Joseph - 1893 - 06/03/1893 – Age 13 - Water leader. West Auckland, Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd., Auckland, Co.Durham. Some tubs were running into a landing and caught a hauling rope attached to a tub which was dragged over him.

SWINERTON William - 1898 - 02/04/1898 – Age 60 – Byeman. Wrexham & Acton, Wrexham & Acton Collieries Co. Ltd., Denbigh. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was pulling in front of a tub of dirt, instead of keeping behind with his partner at the far end of an old level, which they were stowing with dirt when he got crushed by the tub against a low bar fracturing his spine. He died at the Infirmary on the 4th instant.

SWINLEY William (non-fatal) - 1892 - 20/10/1892 – Age 19 – Collier. Leven, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Struck by runaway tub. Still off.

SWINSTON John - 1892 - 02/12/1892 – Age 45 – Hewer. Shire Moor, Shire Moor Coal Co. Ltd., Shire Moor, Northumberland. Inquest attended. Kirving without any sprags being set when the coal fell over on to him.

SWINTON William - 1893 - 13/11/1893 – Age 28 – Miner. Cowdenbeath, Cowdenbeath Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Explosion of firedamp.

SWITHENBY James - 1896 - 16/07/1896 – Age 35 – Daywageman. Garswood Hall, Garswood Hall Collieries Co. Ltd., Lancashire. Inspection made and inquest attended. The deceased was engage repairing the roadway and changing the timber when the roof fell on him. It had apparently been disturbed by drawing props. He had been visited by the fireman just before the accident who saw nothing in the state of the roof to draw his attention.

SYBURN Thomas - 1891 - 19/11/1891 – Age 36 – Waggonman. Sherburn, Earl of Durham, Durham, Co.Durham. In attempting to get on to a set of waggons, while in motion, he fell and was run over. 3.30 pm.

SYKES H. - 1898 - 30/09/1898 – Age 24 – Collier. West Ardsley, West Yorkshire Iron and Coal Co., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SYKES J. - 1897 - 05/01/1897 – Age 33 – Collier. Carlton Main, Yorkshire and Derbyshire Coal & Iron Co. Ltd., Yorkshire. Fall of roof.

SYKES James - 1890 - 08/09/1890 – Age 37 – Miner. Butterworth Hall, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Milnrow, Lancashire. Burned by explosion of firedamp, James died the next day. It fired at their candles as they were about to begin work. 1 killed, 1 injured.

SYKES Joseph - 1894 - 12/10/1894 – Age 29 – Collier. Peel Hall, James Roscoe and Sons, Little Hulton, Lancashire. Fall of roof in gateway whilst drawing prop. Died 21st.

SYKES Robert (injured) - 1890 - 08/09/1890 – Age 43 – Miner. Butterworth Hall, Platt Bros. and Co. Ltd., Milnrow, Lancashire. Burned by explosion of firedamp, James died the next day. It fired at their candles as they were about to begin work. 1 killed 1 injured.

SYLKIE James - 1894 - 16/01/1894 – Age 47 – Shifter. Bye Moor, John Bowes and Partners Ltd., Bye Moor, Co.Durham. Inspection made and inquest attended. These men were bottom cutting and had just about finished their work when a large fall of post stone took place, killing them on the spot. According to the evidence the place was well timbered and it is surmised that they had undermined the props, six of which were afterwards found under the stone. 2 killed.

SYLVESTER Charles (injured) - 1894 - 18/09/1894 – Age 38 – Undermanager. Barracks, Lilleshall Co. Ltd., Donnington, Shropshire. Thrown out of cage by it being overwound. 1 killed, 3 injured. Back injured.

SYM Thomas - 1894 - 02/06/1894 – Age 19 – Collier. Pontyberem, Pontyberem Colliery Co. Ltd., Pontyberem, Carmarthen. Fall of roof (strong cliff, 4 feet x 3 feet x 8 inches thick) on a heading which was not double timbered. Grasucha seam, anthracite.

SYM William - 1893 - 07/07/1893 – Age 17 – Reddsman. Shawsburn, W and D Sym, Lanarkshire. Fall of roof.

SYME David (non-fatal) - 1891 - 22/12/1891 – Age 43 – Miner. Broxburn, Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd., Linlithgow. Explosion of gunpowder. 40 days off.

SYME David (non-fatal) - 1892 - 15/01/1892 – Age 41 – Ostler. Cowdenbeath, Cowdenbeath Coal Co., Fife. Struck by tub. 79 days off.

SYME John - 1893 - 2/02/1893 – Age 42 – Brusher. Kelty, Fife Coal Co. Ltd., Fife. Fall of stone.

SYMINGTON David - 1890 - 08/01/1890 – Age 19 – Drawer. Lightshaw No. 3, Eglington Iron Co., Muirkirk, Ayrshire. Fall of roof in road while redding a fall.

SYMMONDS Samuel - 1895 - 07/02/1895 – Age 20 – Collier. Llwynpia No. 3, Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd., Glamorgan. Fall of strong clift, 7.5 foot x 3 foot x 3 foot thick, from the side of the roadway where he was commencing a place. The stone had three props under it but parted at a joint in the roof. No. 3 Rhondda seam.

SYMONS Henry Heath - 1898 - 21/01/1898. Bridewell Quarry, St Budeaux, Cornwall. When leaving his house he was killed by a stone projected about 250 feet from a shot in the quarry. There was it appeared to me considerable recklessness in conducting the blasting.