In England, the day after a mining disaster killed hundreds, 85 more die in an explosion at another pit.

The day after the worst ever mining disaster in English history at Oaks Colliery in Yorkshire killed hundreds, another explosion in a coal mine, this time in the North Staffordshire coal district further south, killed close to a hundred more.  An explosion and fire ripped through the Talk-o-the Hill Colliery where around two hundred men were working around noon. Rescuer brought up dozens of injured survivors, and eighty-five dead bodies.  (By John Osborne)

Source Citation

"Chronicle," The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroard for the Year 1866 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1867), 198-201.

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