What the records say
- When
- 21 Dec 1910
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 53.54° N, 2.49° W
- Description
- 1910 mining accident in Over Hulton, North West England
- Deaths
- 344
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 “Pretoria Pit disaster: a coal mine explosion at the Hulton Colliery Company of Westhoughton in Lancashire, England, kills 344 miners, with just one survivor”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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