Fairclough, the fireman, was brought to the surface by the second party and was not injured by very badly burned and he was taken to his home on Hindley Common. It is therefore manifest that there cannot be perfect safety in blasting in any mine that emits gas and that it should be strictly prohibited when workpeople are in the mine, and only permitted when necessary in their absence, and then only by competent persons employed for that purpose. As a result great care was taken in laying out the colliery and the shaft had been sunk to the rise of the coal to give the best possible ventilation. The practice of blasting had been discontinued for getting coal but it was still in use to bring down roof and enlarge the roads. The rescue party found 62 men and boys had been suffocated by afterdamp and some were badly burned by flames from the ventilation furnace. The scene of the explosion was on the east side of the pit about 400 yards from the downcast shaft. Teams began to arrive from other coal mines in Cumberland County, on Cape Breton Island and in Pictou County. Rescue teams were organised and some men and boys were raised from the workings, some suffering from the effect of afterdamp. James Bullough aged 50 years metalman of New Road Hindley, married with three children. The coroner referred particularly to the engineer as having ‘systematically neglected his duties’. As a result great care was taken in laying out the colliery and the … Berkeley Springs, June 7. This was the work that was being done when the present explosion took place. REFERENCES The downcast was near the Hindley Grammar School with another shaft close by and yet another shaft some distance away. The boardwalk and walking paths from Pitt to Sylvan are now re-opened. Their funerals took place on the following Tuesday at Holy Trinity Church in Little Dawley where it was reported 10,000 people came to pay their respects in an act of collective mourning for the loss of such young lives. The men on the west side of the pit were unaware of the explosion and continued to work until they were told of the disaster when they left the pit and joined the rescue operations. Coordinates: 52°40′12″N 2°27′58″W / 52.670°N 2.466°W / 52.670; -2.466 The Springwell Pit Disaster: The Inspector said that a fireman going through the workings that night should have seen that the place was clear of gas and safe but the gas must have come suddenly at a place where it was not expected. A huge sinkhole has partly swallowed a passing car in Bennett Springs overnight, leaving onlookers in disbelief. HINDLEY GREEN. Miners at the pit would grab hold of a chain running the depth of the mine shaft and be hoisted 150 ft to the surface. Springs Pit. There was a sudden outburst of gas from the floor in a road that had been used for years. Hindley Green Colliery was the property of Messrs. John Sowcroft and Company Limited. The Springwell Pit Disaster: • In 1872 eight young minors employed by the Coalbrookdale Company lost their lives at Springwell Pit in Little Dawley. The youngest miner, Isaiah Skelton was reported to have been 15, but was in fact only 14, the oldest miner only 22. The miners were buried in a communal grave and a large memorial is still visible in the church yard today. A round wooden board, fixed above, provided protection from objects falling down the shaft, and the suspended group of men was referred to as a ‘bond’. On the afternoon of the disaster, at the end of their shift, the eight young miners were being hauled to the surface. There was strong current of air blowing. 15th. The explosion took place in the Arley Mine and was the scene of an explosion some four years before. Most of the 150 men who worked at the pit had left work as usual about 5 p.m., and at 8 p.m., a shift of 21 men went to work. On this day, eight miners clung to the chain. Two Miners Missing In Gravel Pit Collapse June 6, 2016 01:31 Rescue crews on Monday continued trying to reach two miners buried since Friday in the collapse of a gravel pit in Mississippi. The disaster actually became famous for being the first major international event to appear in live television broadcasts (on the CBC). It was known that the Arley seam was liable to explode and there had been many disasters in the district in this seam. It was also fond that eleven ponies had been killed in the east side. They returned a short time later to report that six men had been killed but that Fairclough was still alive. The Northwest Florida Water Management District has returned the Pitt and Sylvan Springs recreation site to normal operating hours (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; seven days a week). Mr. Southworth, the manager was called and when he came to the pit he found that the cage had been wedged at the bottom of the shaft and at the surface, several iron plates round the shaft had been forced upwards by the blast. • In 1872 eight young minors employed by the Coalbrookdale Company lost their lives at Springwell Pit in Little Dawley. The walking trails from Sylvan to Williford remain closed. -- Five men were killed in a premature explosion and seven injured two seriously, when engulfed in a slide of sand which followed the blast at the sand pit of the Berkeley Glass Sand Company, near here late yesterday. Immediately the report of the explosion was heard, the residents rushed to the pit. The miners' funeral attracted large crowds at Dawley's Holy Trinity Church. Mines Inspectors Report, 1871. • The miners died when as they were being hauled to the surface. It was then decided that he had given the signals from the shaft bottom and a search was made for him. • The inquest attributed negligence to the owners, the company’s engineer and the overall pit manager, but no criminal charges were ever brought. In the part of the workings where the explosion had occurred boxes were thrown about and damaged and nearly all the props in the main level had been blown away. The inquest attributed negligence to the owners, the company’s engineer and the overall pit manager, but no criminal charges were ever brought. • Shropshire pits operated a unique lowering and raising process in which a ‘handful’ of miners attached themselves in pairs … Work resumed at the mine the following day and the mine continued to be worked until about 1880. John Cowburn aged 22 years collier of Marsh Lane, Westhoughton, married. Springs Pit. November, 1871. The bodies were taken to the Crown Inn in Little Dawley where they were identified. Shropshire mines are thought to have been unique in the manner in which miners were often lowered and raised from the pits, a process employing a ‘slow-winding’ mechanism. The men sat in pairs, each in the loop of his own chain, usually eight miners in total. As the world waited and those on the surface kept their vigil, rescuers continued to toil below the surface trying to reach trapped survivors. Mr. Peter Higson, the Inspector commented: Under the circumstances it is difficult to say whether the subsidence of the goaf had so broken the floor and so liberated the gas or it was the natural issue from the strata, such has frequently happened before. There were 13 metalmen who were to enlarge the roads, and the furnaceman on the south-west side and two colliers, a drawer, two metalmen and a fireman on the north-east side of the pit. All of them were killed instantly, except one, who died shortly after being brought to the surface. Wigan, Lancashire. Miners at the pit would grab hold of a chain running the depth of the mine shaft and be hoisted 150 ft to the surface. The Springwell Pit disaster occurred on 6 December 1872 at Springwell coal mining pit near Dawley, Shropshire (now part of Telford). This was followed by a violent explosion which devastated the north-east side of the pit. The Springwell Pit disaster occurred on 6 December 1872 at Springwell coal mining pit near Dawley, Shropshire (now part of Telford). A new memorial, bearing the names and a brief history of the disaster has now been erected in the town centre, outside the Methodist church and supermarket. 15th. The bodies of the dead were not all recovered until 11 a.m. the following day. In this way  miners attached themselves by chains to a link fixed at the end of the shaft chain. Numerous parties went down the pit but the bodies were not recovered until 11 a.m. the following morning. In 2008 Dawley History Group organised a memorial service to try to get the disaster recognised by local people, whose families now largely from the Black Country following the development of Telford New Town. Indeed, pit workers earlier in the week had mentioned the poor condition of the triple link chain, but although there had been some alleged replacement of rivets, the spare chain available had not been fitted. John Green aged 24 years, collier of Wheat Sheaf Yard, Westhoughton, married with three children. The two metalmen were making a pony road and as far as was known at the time, a shot was fired shortly after 11 p.m. to bring down part of the roof. Blasting was suspected as being the cause of the disaster and since the blasting was used only to blow down the roof to enlarge the roads. Every effort was made to get the damaged cage in working order. November, 1871. Leigh Journal. Leigh Chronicle. A burst water main caused havoc on Beechboro Road last night, flooding parts of the street outside a shopping centre and sending water gushing through the area. Colliery Guardian, 17th November p.509, 24th November p.534, 1st December p.262, 15th December p.606. The disaster affected the whole community, not least because it was the first major mining accident in the Dawley area, and followed closely on the Pelsall tragedy in nearby Staffordshire less than a month earlier when 22 miners were killed, including 5 from Dawley. On this day, eight miners clung to the chain. Peter Holt aged 48 years, metalman of Hindley Common, married with eight children. An explosion in the colliery's Springs Pit occurred in the Arley mine at 8.40am. 1872 was a tragic year in Dawley mining history when eight young men employed by the Coalbrookdale Company lost their lives at Springwell Pit in Holly Lane, Little Dawley. "BBC - Shropshire - History - Telford pit tragedy", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Springwell_Pit_disaster&oldid=978135546, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 03:27. • Shropshire pits operated a unique lowering and raising process in which a ‘handful’ of miners attached themselves in pairs by chains to a link fixed at the end of the shaft chain. The explosion took place in the Arley mine claimed six lives. Shortly before 12 o’clock an exploring party consisting of the underlooker, Peter Meadows, and a number of miners went down the pit. Springs Pit Hindley Green: The colliery employed nearly 300 men and boys. Hindley Green Colliery was the property of Messrs. John Sowcroft and Company Limited. It was known that the Arley seam was liable to explode and there had been many disasters in the district in this seam. • The youngest miner, Isaiah Skelton was only 14½ the eldest miner only 22. The colliery had three shafts. Links in the chain snapped, plunging them to their deaths below. He was found totally unconscious unaware that anything had happened in the mine. There was a fireman, William Fairclough, was specially appointed to see that shots were fired correctly and that no shots were fired during the day. John Almond, the furnaceman who was in the south west workings was found to have been left behind when the thirteen metal men who were working on that side of the pit got to the surface. The inquest took place before Mr. Driffield at the Victoria Inn. It was not more than eight feet wide and five feet high and had a dirt floor. © Northern Mine Research Society | Registered Charity Number - 326704. HINDLEY GREEN. After some 20 yards up the shaft, links in the chain snapped, plunging them to their deaths below. Wigan, Lancashire. Some of the bodies were taken to their homes and some to the Victoria Inn. About 60 yards to one side there was a goaf but between the upbrow there was an return air course which was undamaged by the blast.

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