1914 Causes and Circumstances of the Disaster Which Occured at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd

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Leather Binding, Very Scarce

Complete in two volumes.

A vanishingly scarce contemporary account of the 1913 Senghenydd colliery disaster. Important original source for this awful disaster. .

Held only at the National Library of Wales.  

These two volumes comprise of the lengthy minutes of proceedings regarding this disaster in the Cardiff Law Courts, as the government inquired into the causes and circumstances of the explosion. 

The monumental case was overseen by Richard Redmayne, among others. Redmayne was a mining engineer who became the first Chief Inspector of Mines, leading this and other investigations into mining disasters, advocating for greater mine safety. 

Redmayne was chiefly assisted in this investigation by Evan Williams and Robert Similie. This investigation ran for three days before adjourning and reopening for another 13 days, during which 21,839 questions were put to 50 witnesses, all of which are included in these two extensive volumes.

Appearances during the investigation included John Sankey, Clement Edwards, W. P. Nicholas, William Brace, and E. Williams.

Offering a unique and scarce to see exploration of the disaster only two and a half months after the incident which killed 439 miners. The Senghenydd colliery disaster occured on the 14th October 1913, and it still to this day the worst mining accident in Britain.

This work was compiled from the shorthand notes taken by the 'Western Mail' reporting staff.

A unique first hand account of the worst British mining disaster in history.