What the records say
- When
- 12 Jan 1918
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 53.04° N, 2.31° W
- Description
- Coal mining disaster
- Deaths
- 155
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Minnie Pit disaster, a mining accident at Halmer End in the North Staffordshire Coalfield, kills 155 as the result of an explosion caused by firedamp”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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