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1874 Nov    The Burial of the Dead.
1874 Nov    The Shocking Explosion at the Warren Vale Colliery.
1880 Nov    The Shocking Accident Manver‘s Main Colliery.
1889 Jan    Fatal Accident in Manvers Main Sidings – The Result of The Fog.
1890 May    A Miner Buried Alive at Wath Main – Shocking Spectacle.
1891 Sep    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main Colliery.
1891 Nov    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main Colliery.
1892 May    Alarming Accident at Manvers – Inquests
1892 May    Alarming Accident at Manvers – Two Killed & Two Injured.
1892 May    Great Fall of Bind at Manvers Main Colliery – Two Lives Lost.
1892 Sep    Fatal Accident at Manvers – Deputy Censured.18920900id
1892 Oct    Fatalities at Houghton Main, Manvers Main & Denaby Main
1892 Nov    A Body Disinterred at Wombwell
1902 May    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main
1902 Oct    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main
1908 Nov    Amazing Epidemic of Fatal Accidents – Four Colliery Disasters & Two Drowning Cases
1908 Nov    Killed By Complications – Veteran Miner’s Death – Heart Failure & Accident.
1909 Jan    Cut Finger Causes Death – Miner Succumbs To Blood Poisoning. Life Lost Through Neglect.
1909 Jul    Miners’ Dangers – Fatalities in Mexborough District.
1917 Feb    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main
1917 Apr    Fatality at Wath Main
1917 Oct    Crushed By Tubs – Fatal Accident at Wath Main
1917 Nov    Manvers Main Casualties
1918 Jan    Fatality at Manvers Main – Fall of Roof.
1918 Feb    Wath Main Accident. – West Melton Man Killed – Broken Link.
1918 Mar    Fell from Aerial Flight – Youth’s Shocking Death – Blacksmith’s Narrow Escape
1918 Aug    Fatality at Manvers Main – Handyman Killed and Youth Badly Injured
1919 Apr    Fatal Shock From Fall.
1919 Jul    Manvers Main Fatality – Miner Killed through a “Bump.”
1919 Jul    Wath Main Accident – Death from Injuries.
1919 Dec    Mexboro’ Miner Killed at Manvers Main.
1921 Sep    Sad Accident – Father and Son – One Taken, the Other Left.
1921 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – Survivors’ Stories
1922 Apr    Railway Linesman’s Death at Wath.
1927 Jun    Killed by Tubs – Accident at Wath Main
1927 Sep    Lampman’s Fall
1927 Oct    Miner’s Fatal Exertion.
1928 Feb    Memories of the Lundhill Explosion – Old Lady’s Vivid Recollection.
1928 May    Bars Or Props? Which Are Safer In Coal Mines?
1928 May    Pit Roof Fall – Two Men Buried at Wath Main: One Dead.
1928 Jun    Crushed By Roof – Wath Trammer’s Fate – Comrade’s Narrow Escape.
1928 Jul    West Melton Man Dies at Cortonwood
1929 Apr    Wath Main Accident. – West Melton Miner hit by Half-Ton Lump.
1929 May    Cortonwood Trammer Inquest.
1929 May    Wath Council Workman Killed by Mortar Mill – “It Has Got Me.”
1929 Jul    Killed By Fall – Accident During Precautions
1929 Oct    “Unaccountable” – Curious Accident at Wath – Killed by Scraper.
1929 Nov    Killed By Roof Fall at Manvers – Another of Nature’s Revenges – A Swinton Victim.
1929 Dec    West Melton Miner’s Life Lost “Through Absolute Carelessness.”
1930 May    Trapped Thumb.- Wath Postman’s Death From Slight Injury.
1930 May    Too Eager To Help – Miner Trapped in “Paddy’s Mail” – Killed On His Birthday
1932 Jan    Casualty List of 1931
1932 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – What Rescuers Had To Face
1932 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – Hospital Drama                                                               
1932 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – Inquest Opened
1932 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – Midnight Explosion in Silkstone Seam
1932 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – Sinister Month
1932 Dec    Cortonwood Disaster – The Victims
1933 Jan    Coal “Burst” – “Inevitable” Type Of Accident – Wath Man Killed
1933 Jan    Cortonwood Disaster – Eighth Victim – Boys’ Brigade Leader
1933 Jan    Cortonwood Disaster Inquest – Fatal Seventh Shot
1933 Jan    The Cortonwood Disaster – Workmen Closely Questioned  
1933 Apr    Cortonwood Accident – Killed By Fall In Presence of Son
1937 Feb    Miner Killed After Warning Shout.
1937 Aug    Killed In Pit – “Accidental Death” of Birdwell Man
1937 Aug    Unexplained Wath Mishap – Derailed Wagons – Shunter Killed
1937 Nov    Pit Death Mystery – Boy Crushed by Rock
1938 Nov    Fatal Accident In Pit
1939 Aug    Accident – Inquest Told “Inches from Safety”
1940 Aug    Only Fingers Showing – Miner Crushed By Stone at Manvers
1941 Aug    Fall of Roof – Mexborough Miner Killed
1941 Sep    Manvers Main Accident – One Dead: One in Hospital
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s Message
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Deputy at Montagu
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremour
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The First Man Rescued
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Last Two
1942 May    South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters
1942 Aug    Pit Fatality – Harry Crossley’s Brother
1942 Aug    Sudden Fall – Mexborough Mineworker Buried
1942 Aug    Barnburgh Main Broadcast – Coun. T.H. Barker
1942 Oct    Loss of a Good Workman – Inquest on Wath Collier
1942 Oct    Pit Fatality – Brother of Boxer
1948 Oct    Wath Miner Fatally Injured
1951 Nov    Manvers Pit Fatality
1951 Nov    Miner Over-Eager? Victim of Hidden Manvers Roof Fall
1953 Apr    Corton Wood Pit Fatality – Killed By Cage
1959 Feb    Fatality at Manvers Main – Man dies in Boiling Cauldron – Unsuccessful Rescue Bid
1959 Mar     “Workers’ V.C.” For West Melton Man
1959 Nov    Colliery Fatality Inquest – “Chance in a Thousand” Stone Fall