Colliery Company / Whiston Colliery Company / William Dixon Limited / /
Event
Man-Made Disaster / Force Majeure / Natural Disaster / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
mine Mr / Dragon Hotel / Mr. Hall / Cannel mine / /
IndustryTerm
long wall mining / pit bank / gas coming / /
NaturalFeature
Boon Hill / Thomas Dale / John Dale / /
Organization
Hartley Fund / UN Court / /
Person
Walter Cowan / Corrighan / Thomas Wolstenholme / Thomas Lever / George Booth / Thomas Hughes / Amos Lomax / Thomas Murdoch / Joseph Hobson / James Cope Cadman / Isaac Anders / Simon Horrocks / Samuel Wolstenholme / Ralph Welsby / Robert Clarke / W. Brown / Robert White / Caleb Whalley / John Macdonald / Ellis Lord Lindley / Andrew Walker / Robert Enion / Frederick Cook / Henry Viggers / John Sanders / Gilroy / Woodward / James Mullaney / Robert Murdoch / Michael Currie / Henry Piper / Isaiah Johnson / Christopher Moore / David Enion / Martin Houghnie / John Stockton / Johnathan Enion / Thomas Peake / Frederick Whalley / Driffield / Richard Wallwork / John Harrison / John Hamblet / David Fleming / Edward Pilkington / James Gould / George Lindley / Peter Fogg / James Beattie / Richard Fowler / George Young / Thomas Moore / James Ross / James Cameron / Joseph Welsby / Clough / John Miller / John Vigger / Abraham Riley / Abel Wall / Dickinson / James Stott / Rolandson / Joseph Baggalley / James Henry Price / Albert Handy / Henry Hall / John Edwards / James Byrom / James Cork / James Holt / George Jackson / James Wardrope / Alexander Ross / William Jones / James William / James Chadwick / David Wardrope / James Partington / James Hobson / Bostock / Grimshaw / Scott / Wynne / John Taylor / Thomas Hilton / John Tickle Lomax / Richard Feartherstone / James Briscoe / Makinson / John Howard / Thomas Byrom / Edward Hardie / Strick / Thomas Mace / Joseph Braddock / John Shenton / Ronaldson / John Whalley / John Greenhalgh / John Haynes / James Mayer / Thomas Lomax / James Higginson / Charles Tong / David Gould / Henry Yarwood / Henry Heyes / Walter Ralston / /
Position
certificated manager / chief fireman / railway porter / experienced miner / manager of the colliery / managing partner / official / assistant / fireman / miner / manager / manager of the pit / manager the Burley Pit / Inspector / Inspector and his assistant / manager of the collier / assistant Inspector / the assistant manager of the Apedale Collieries / day fireman / previous manager / managing partner of the colliery / head / /
WHISTON. Whiston, Lancashire. 17th. February, 1878. The explosion occurred at 1 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon at the colliery owned by the Wigan and Whiston Colliery Company and caused the death of seven people and