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The disaster occurred in the No.2 Pit and the resulting fire cost the lives of forty-seven men. The mine was known to be gassy and had two shafts which went to the No.2 Pit workings where the accident occurred, at a depth of 360 yards.
Underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery Lanarkshire. Report on the causes of, and the circumstances attending, the fire which occurred at Auchengeich Colliery, Lanarkshire on 18th September, 1959
21. Juli 2020 · By Russell Leadbetter. Share. 2. FORTY-seven miners died in a fire 1,000ft underground at the Auchengeich Colliery at Chryston, Lanarkshire, on September 18, 1959. After eight hours of rescue...
22. Sept. 2022 · The Auchengeich pit, which had opened in 1905 and employed 830 miners who produced 730 tons of coal per day, closed six years after the disaster; with the homes of the nearby mining village of...
- Judith Tonner
The largest fatal accident in the post-Second World War Scottish coal industry took place on 18 September 1959, when 47 men were killed at Auchengeich Colliery in Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire.
Five miners were killed and six injured in an explosion which occurred early yesterday morning in a Lanarkshire colliery. Several men escaped injury in the explosion, but returned immediately to the danger zone in an effort to assist their comrades, and were overcome by gas fumes.
4. Juni 2010 · The Auchengeich Colliery disaster was Scotland's worst mining disaster of the last century. A total of 41 women were widowed and 76 children lost their fathers as a result of the tragedy. A...
