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Industrial Deaths

1892   May Alarming Accident at Manvers – Inquests
1892   May Alarming Accident at Manvers – Two Killed & Two Injured.
1892   May Great Fall of Bind at Manvers Main Colliery – Two Lives Lost.
1892   Sep A Warning to Miners.
1899   Nov Labourer’s Sudden Death.
1902   Sep Mexborough Engine Tenter’s Death.
1903   Feb Sad Death of a Mexborough Miner – Killed by a Fall of Coal
1904   Jan Another Fatality At Denaby – Pony-driver Killed.
1904   Jul Colliery Accident At Denaby.
1907   Sep 15 Year Old Pony-driver Run over by Tubs
1907   Sep Man´s Sad Death – Killed By Coal From Wagon – Safety Precautions Suggested.
1907   Oct Collier Killed by Fall of Roof – Crushed To Death.
1908 Apr 11 Walter Bennett Killed – Awful Affair – Tragic End
1908   Nov Amazing Epidemic of Fatal Accidents – Four Colliery Disasters & Two Drowning Cases
1908   Nov Gigantic Fall of Roof – Driver Crushed To Death – Heroic Rescue by Deputy.
1909   Feb Buried for Two Hours – One Taken and the Other Left – Miner’s Neck broken
1909   Jul Miners’ Dangers – Fatalities in Mexborough District.
1909   Jul Two Colliers Killed – Ex-Soldier’s Neck Broken at Denaby.
1909   Aug Platelayer Loses An Arm – Mexborough Railwayman’s Death
1911   Sep Killed in the Pit – Mexborough Pony Drivers Mistake
1912   Aug Editorial – Cadeby Disaster
1912   Aug Editorial – Home Office Inquiry
1912   Aug Fall of Roof. – Fatal Accident at Denaby –  The Inquest.
1912   Aug Home Office Inquiry Into the Cadey Disaster – Monday Afternoon
1912   Aug Home Office Inquiry Into the Cadey Disaster – Monday Morning
1912   Aug Home Office Inquiry Into the Cadey Disaster – Points From The Enquiry.
1912   Aug Editorial – Another Appeal
1912   Sep Cadeby Disaster – Widows’ Pathetic Disclosure at Inquest – A Painful Incident.
1912   Dec The Cadeby Disaster – End of the Inquiry – Cusworth’s Pocketbook
1912   Dec The Cadeby Disaster – End of the Inquiry – Inspectors Important Conclusions
1917   Dec Banksman Knocked Down
1918   Mar Fell from Aerial Flight – Youth’s Shocking Death – Blacksmith’s Narrow Escape
1919   Jan Deputy Killed by Fall of Stone
1919   Jul Manvers Main Fatality – Miner Killed through a “Bump.”
1919   Jul Wath Main Accident – Death from Injuries.
1919   Dec Mexboro’ Miner Killed at Manvers Main.
1921   Aug Trapped by a Motor – An Unlucky Oversight.
1927   Sep Accident a Mystery – Coroner’s Theory
1927   Sep Accidental Death of 14 Year old Trammer
1927   Sep Colliery Lampman Dies
1928   May Bars Or Props? Which Are Safer In Coal Mines?
1928   May Scratch Has Fatal Termination.
1928   Jun Needless Accident – Colliery Rules Not Observed
1928   Oct Dying Guard’s Version of Rail Mishap at Mexborough – No One to Blame.
1928   Oct Knocked Off Boilers – Mexborough Man Killed at Kilnhurst Forge.
1928   Dec Drowning Fatality.
1929   Mar Died After Operation – Sequel to Accident to Mexborough Man
1929   May Trapped By Tubs – Mexborough Youth Killed in Barnburgh Mine – Shocking Injuries.
1931   Feb Whirled Round Shaft – Caught in Screen – Unseen Accident.
1931   May Pit Bump – Mexborough Man Killed – Huge Stone
1932   Jan Casualty List of 1931
1932   Feb A Funny Roof – Mexboro’ Miner Killed At Denaby.
1932   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – What Rescuers Had To Face
1932   Jun Killed By Tubs – Boy’s Neck Broken – Unexplained Accident
1933   Jan Cortonwood Disaster Inquest – Fatal Seventh Shot
1933   Apr  Denaby Accident – Tragedy of Broken Rules – Official’s Son Killed
1934   Jan Miner’s Death from Explosion – Fatal Third Shot – Unsuspected Pocket of Gas
1934   Feb “Faulty” Roof – Fatal Fall at Cadeby Main
1934   Feb “Faulty” Roof Fatal Fall at Cadeby Main Denaby Man Killed
1937   May Distinguished Musician Killed by Fall of Coal
1938   Nov Fatal Accident In Pit
1939   Aug Accident – Inquest Told “Inches from Safety”
1940   Aug Mexborough Miner Crushed – Did Not Set Props When Advised by Deputy
1941   Mar Choked By False Teeth – Man Crushed Under Fall
1941   Aug Fall of Roof – Mexborough Miner Killed
1942   Apr Runaway Tub – Mineworker Fatally Injured
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s Message
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Deputy at Montagu
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremours
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Men Involved
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The First Man Rescued
1942   May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Last Two
1942   May South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters
1942   Jun Causes of Barnburgh Disaster “Without Precedent in This Country”
1942   Aug Pit Fatality – Harry Crossley’s Brother
1942   Aug Sudden Fall – Mexborough Mineworker Buried
1942   Oct Pit Fatality – Brother of Boxer
1947   Aug Balby Rail Crash – “Second Dunkirk” – 68 victims – 7 Local Casualties (video)
1949   Sep Death in Cadeby Pit – Due to lifting tubs say jury
1951   Dec Stone Looked Safe But Fell and Killed Mineworker
1957   Jul Barnburgh Pit Blast – One Man Leaving Hospital – Death Roll now 4
1959   Feb Fatality at Manvers Main – Man dies in Boiling Cauldron – Unsuccessful Rescue Bid
1959   Nov Colliery Fatality Inquest – “Chance in a Thousand” Stone Fall