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| Picture No | 10795506 |
| Date | 1901 |
| Description | Senghenydd disaster at the Universal colliery, 1901 |
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Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. 82 miners and 50 horses were killed in the disaster on 24th May 1901; only 1 man and 2 horses survived; the precursor to an even greater disaster there in 1913.
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| Source | Photograph in the Illustrated London News, 1st June 1901, page 779. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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