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Barnburgh Main Broadcast – Coun. T.H. Barker
Struck By Chain – Barnburgh Mineworker’s Death
1909 Sep Hickleton Miner Buried – “I am done.”
1917 Jan Fourteen Year Old Pony Driver is First Fatal Accident
1917 Nov Corporal’s Terrible Death.
1918 Feb Goldthorpe Miner Killed – Men Work To Show Sympathy
1918 May Pony Driver Killed by 5 Tons of Roof
1919 May Pony Driver Killed
1919 Jul Complained of Pain in Back and Died
1919 Jul Manvers Main Fatality – Goldthorpe Miner Killed through a “Bump.”
1921 Jan Goldthorpe Boy Killed by Runaway Tubs.
1921 May Goldthorpe Deputies Death – Adjourned Inquest
1921 Sep Pit Pilfering – Boy Who Lost His Life through It – Deadly “Hiding Place”
1927 Oct Fall of 40 Tons – Engine Man’s Graphic Story of Pit Accident.
1927 Dec Another Tragedy for Family
1928 Mar Fatal Familiarity – Life Lost to Save Two Minutes
1928 May Power Station Tragedy – Shocking Accident – Bridegroom’s Fate.
1928 Sep Jerked To Roof – Goldthorpe Boy Killed by Haulage Rope – Barnburgh Accident
1928 Dec  Mining Deaths – Mystery of Goldthorpe Accident.
1929 May Miner’s Life Lost Through Error of Judgment.
1929 May Trapped By Tubs – Mexborough Youth Killed in Barnburgh Mine – Shocking Injuries.
1929 Jul Jumped the Wrong Way – Goldthorpe Miner Caught by a Bump
1929 Aug Goldthorpe Miner’s Death – A Year-Old Accident Injury
1930 Oct Fatal Accidents – Killed at Denaby and Barnbro’
1930 Dec Disastrous Explosion at Houghton Main – Five Dead: Twelve Injured.
1931 Jan Houghton Main Disaster – Inquest Closed – Jury’s Findings.
1932 Jan Casualty List of 1931
1932 May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Deputy at Montagu
1932 May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – What Rescuers Had To Face
1932 Sep Coroner’s Appeal To Miners – Miner Killed By Big Fall
1937 Nov Killed By Fall – Inquest on Goldthorpe Pit Boy
1938 Oct Miner Killed at Goldthorpe Main Colliery
1938 Oct Barnboro’ Main Pit Re-Opening
1938 Nov Fatal Accident In Pit
1938 Dec Two Killed In Coal Fall at a South Yorkshire Pit
1939 Feb Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton – Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof
1939 Jul Goldthorpe Miner Killed At Barnburgh Colliery – Accident No One Saw
1941 Jul Thurnscoe By-Worker’s Death – Three Months After Accident
1942 Apr Obituary – Mr Frank C. Chivers
1942 Apr Miner’s Death.
1942 Apr Ripper Killed – Caught By Fall At Barnburgh
1942 May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s Message
1942 May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremour
1942 May Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Men Involved
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 Four Months After Accident – Mine Worker’s Death
1942 May South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters
1942 Jun Causes of Barnburgh Disaster “Without Precedent in This Country”
1943 Apr Thurnscoe Haulage Hand Crushed
1947 Jan South Yorkshire Pit Disasters
1951 Dec Escaped Barnburgh Entombment – Swinton Miner Fatally Injured at Cadeby
1957 Jun Barnburgh Main Pit Blast – 20 Miners Burned
1957 Jul Barnburgh Pit Blast – One Man Leaving Hospital – Death Roll now 4
1957 Aug Another Victim of Barnburgh Pit Disaster – Death Toll Now Six
1957 Nov Flash From Damaged Cable Was Cause of Barnburgh Pit Explosion
1959 Aug Barnburgh Fatality – ‘Difficult to Understand What Could Have Happened’
1959 Aug Third Time Unlucky – Pit Accident Victim Had Been Injured Twice Before
1959 Sep “Accidental Death” Verdict – Goldthorpe Man Killed in Barnburgh Pit Mishap
1960 Mar Barnburgh Pit Fatality – Bolton Married Man is Victim
1970 May N.U.M. Official Is Killed
1970 May Walking On Cotton Wool – Pathologist at pit death inquest