Help Mines P18

Sparks from the wooden break blocks of a haulage engine set fire to nearby brattice sheets.
The fire spread quickly, fanned by the strong ventilation to ignite timber supports
sending dense clouds of smoke and fumes into the mines workings.
The death tally would have been much greater if it wasn't for the
brave action of the district fireman, Thomas Prosser, who ventured into the dense smoke
and by opening a set of air doors he diverted the noxious fumes out of the mine.
63 lost their lives.
The Disaster

Adolphus Dodge	14	doorboy.
Albert Pearce	16	collier.
Amazia Jones	15	collier.
Arthur Davies	33	collier.
Arthur Thorne	16	collier.
Charles Coville	50	collier.
Charles Godfrey	28	collier.
Coleman Williams	17	haulier.
Cornelius Hayes	18	oiler.
Daniel David	17	collier.
Daniel O’Shea	16	collier.
Daniel Spooner	35	haulier.
David Davies	29	fireman.
David Jenkins	31	collier.
David John	17	collier.
David John Powell	13	collier.
David W. Prosser	17	collier.
Ernest Thomas Prosser	18	collier.
Frank Grainger	28	inclineman.
Frederick Nurse	16	collier.
George Bartlett	23	collier.
George C. Lewis	15	collier.
George Roderick	14	collier.
George Thorne	31	collier.
Gwilym Howells	17	collier.
Ivor Lloyd	22	collier.
James Devereux	39	lampman.
James Holbrook	25	collier.
Jesse Titley	19	collier.
Job Miller	18	collier.
John Llewelyn	45	collier.
John Maddox	33	collier.
John Nichols	26	engineman.
John Roberts	21	collier.
John Thomas	27	collier.
John Williams	31	collier.
John Williams	61	labourer.
Joseph Williams	37	collier.
Lewis Jacob	20	collier.
Lewis Thomas	25	haulier.
Lewis Williams	26	collier.
Mark Osborne	26	collier.
Morgan Williams	57	collier.
Morris Potter	28	collier.
Patsey Sullivan	-	rider
Phillip Jones	42	collier.
Richard Edmunds	25	collier.
Thomas Davies	29	bratticeman.
Thomas Henry Williams	17	collier.
Thomas Lambert	27	rider.
Thomas Price	15	doorboy.
Wiliam Lewis	44	collier.
William Bowers	22	collier.
William C. Balling	21	collier.
William Davies	17	collier.
William Edmunds	52	roadman.
William Hughes	17	collier.
William James Bond	16	collier.
William John	42	collier.
William Thomas	18	collier.
William Thomas Cole or Vole	16	collier.
William Wheeler	16	collier.
William Williams	20	collier.