§ Mr. WRIGHTasked the Secretary for Mines the number of accidents in mines due to fires and floods for each year from 1884 to 1924, the number of lives lost, and the place of the accidents for these same years?
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§ Colonel LANE-FOXThis information is given in the following table, except in respect of accidents from fires during the period 1884–1893 inclusive. That infor-
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FATAL ACCIDENTS. Year. Underground Fires. Irruptions of Water. Sep. Accidents. Persons Killed. Place (by County). (No. of Deaths in brackets.) Sep. Accidents. Persons Killed. Place (by County). (No. of Deaths in brackets.) 1884 Not available 1 1 Staffs. 1885 2 16 Durham (13), Carnarvon (3). 1886 1 2 Ireland. 1887 1 3 Lanes. 1888 2 3 Monmouth (1), Glamorgan (2). 1889 1 4 Glamorgan. 1890 4 6 Edinburgh (1), Durham (1), Glamorgan (1), Flint (3). 1891 1 1 Glamorgan. 1892 3 9 Yorks (6), Somerset (2), Lanes (1). 1893 1 20 Cornwall. 1894 — — — 1 3 Cumberland. 1895 4 13 Fife (9), Renfrew (1), Denbigh (1), Staffs (2) 4 94 Staffs (77), Ayr (9), Tyrone (6), Lanes (2). 1896 1 1 Staffs 2 7 Glamorgan (6), Flint (1). 1897 1 20 Isle of Man 4 26 Clackmannan (6), Durham (10), Kent (8), Lanes (2). 1898 1 35 Leicester 1 3 Ayr. 1899 4 10 Ayr (1), Durham (1), Cumberland (4), Cork (4). 3 3 Flint (1), Carmarthen (2 accidents, 2 deaths). 1900 — — — 3 8 Fife (1), Northumberland (2), C4 hunorgan. (5). 1901 2 8 Fife (7), Lance (1) — — 1902 3 7 Linlithgow (4), Durham (1), Staffs (2). 1 4 Gloucester. 1903 — — — 3 9 Staffs (2 accidents, 7 deaths), Durham (2). 1904 1 1 Fife 2 2 Durham (1), Glamorgan (1). 1905 3 4 Staffs 3 6 Staffs (2 accidents, 5 deaths), Warwick (1). 1906 3 5 Fife (2), Lanark (2), Northumberland (1). 2 6 Glamorgan (4), Haddington (2). 1907 2 4 Fife (3), Staffs (1) 3 4 Derby (1), Carmarthen (2), Kent (1). 1908 3 29 Staffs (2 accidents, 26 deaths), Worcester (3) 3 6 Staffs (3), Edinburgh (2), Durham (1). 1909 1 1 Glamorgan 5 18 Glamorgan (5), Durham (1), Ayr (10), Lanes (1), Staffs (1). 1910 3 4 Worcester (2), Clackmannan (1), Glos. (1) 3 4 Edinburgh (2), Durham (1), Staffs (1). 1911 1 5 Staffs 5 6 Staffs (2 accidents, 2 deaths), Lanes (1), Glamorgan (2), Cornwall (1). mation is not at present available. Its extraction from the old records would involve a good deal of labour, and I hope the information now given will suffice:
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Year. Underground Fires. Irruptions of Water. Sep. Accidents. Persons Killed. Place (by County). (No. of Deaths in brackets.) Sep. Accidents. Persons Killed. Place (by County). (No. of Deaths in brackets.) 1912 1 1 Glamorgan 1 1 Cumberland 1913 2 25 Lanark (22), Monmouth (3). 3 10 Fife (1), Yorks (8), Cumberland (1). 1914 1 1 Monmouth 3 4 Ayr (1), Durham (1), Glamorgan (2). 1915 2 14 Yorks (2), Staffs (12) 2 3 Durham (1), Staffs (2). 1916 2 3 Staffs (1), Warwick (2). 4 9 Lanark (5), Stirling (1), Durham (1), Pembroke (2). 1917 1 1 Leicester — — 1918 1 4 Durham 1 19 Lanark. 1919 3 6 Ayr (2), Linlithgow (3), Somerset (1). — — 1920 1 4 Lanark — — 1921 1 1 Warwick — — 1922 1 1 Lanark 1 1 Northumberland. 1923 — — 3 52 Staffs (2 accidents, 12 deaths), Stirling (40). 1924 — — — 2 6 Glamorgan.