Baddesley Pit Explosion P3

Following on from an Email from Joyce Lowe about Samuel Spruce

Baddesley Pit Explosion. 1st May 1882. - Page3

Explosion of gas 23 killed - The Disaster

Baddesley. Atherstone, Warwickshire.
In Memory Of Those Who Died

Amos Ball	26 years	collier.
Charles Albrighton jnr.	20 years	loader.
Charles Evans	32 years	collier.
Eli Smith jnr.	19 years	loader.
Frank Pogmore	27 years	solicitor.
John Atkins	35 years	collier.
John Collins	17 years	loader.
John Evans	25 years	stallman.
John Parker	58 years	manager.
John Pogmore	57 years	agent.
Joseph Ball	48 years	enginewright.
Joseph Clay	52 years	underviewer.
Joseph Day	31 years	deputy.
Richard Archer	32 years	inclineman.
Richard Evans	28 years	stallman.
Rowland Till	29 years	carpenter.
Samuel Boonham	49 years	stallman.
Thomas Besson	41 years	collier.
Thomas Day	22 years	collier
William Day	22 years	collier.
William Orton	56 years	stallman.
William Stratford Dugdale	54 years	owner.

Those who were left in the mine-

George Bates	38 years	stallman.
Henry Ratford snr.	51 years	stallman.
John Ross	51 years	collier.
Joseph Orton	35 years	collier.
Joseph Scattergood	13 years	incline boy.
William Blower	26 years	collier.
William Day	71 years	collier.
William Knight	31 years	collier.
William Smith	46 years	stallman.

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