FLINT. Flint, Flintshire. 20th. May, 1828.
The colliery was the property of Mr. Thomas Eyton and was one of the pits of the Dee Green colliery. It was reported that an explosion claimed between nine and eleven lives and injured eleven others. The firedamp had collected in a part of the pit unobserved by the workmen and a boy incautiously took a naked light to the spot and a tremendous explosion followed immediately.
There were upwards of thirty men and boys in the pit and nine were killed on the spot and eleven others dreadfully wounded. Most had broken limbs and were badly scorched. Some of the unfortunate men had large families and a woman who lost her husband and son had given birth only a few days before.
REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway, Vol.1, p.503.
Boyd’s Coal Mines Inspection.
The North Wales Chronicle.
Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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