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September 22: On This Day in World History … briefly
In total, only 11 bodies (eight miners and the three rescue men) were ever recovered from the mine.
1934: The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners
The Gresford disaster occurred on September 22, 1934 at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, in northeast Wales, when an explosion and underground fire killed 266 men. Gresford is one of Britain’s worst coal mining disasters: a controversial inquiry into the disaster did not conclusively identify a cause, though evidence suggested that failures in safety procedures and poor mine management were contributory factors.
Further public controversy was caused by the decision to permanently seal the colliery’s damaged districts, meaning that only eleven of those who died were recovered.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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