What the records say
- When
- 30 Apr 1896
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 53.79° N, 1.33° W
- Description
- 1896 mining accident in West Yorkshire, England
- Deaths
- 63
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 “Peckfield Colliery disaster in Micklefield, Yorkshire: an underground explosion kills 63 men and boys and 19 pit ponies”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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