Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster 1862

Date: 22 Feb 1862 to 22 Feb 1862
Location: Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom

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• It was recorded in Y Dysgedydd for March 1862 that the whole workings were filled with water in a very short time and it was not long before the water had risen 80 yards up the pit. One of the miners escaped by climbing up the pit shaft by getting hold of the wire which was only an inch thick.
• In a fairly recent publication (1996) Accidents in The Flintshire and Denbighshire Lead mines it states:-
  The worst accident in a 19th century lead mine in Flintshire and Denbighshire before the mine inspectors' reports began was at Bryngwiog, Halkyn, in 1862 in which 16 miners were killed when they accidentally broke into old, flooded, workings. The men killed in the accident varied in age from 14 to 66. Miners aged under 16 were very rare underground.

Summary

• Date; 22 Feb 1862
• Location: Bryngwiog Mine, Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
• Victims: 16 casualties, all drowned
• Cause: inundation

Victims Name Age Those they left behind Address Sourced Bio Connected Category Blackwell, Richard 28 Wife and 2 children under 5 Llaneurgain Yes Yes Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster Brookes, George Llaneurgain Goodwin, Edward ? Hooson, William Cilcain Jones, Edward Moel-y-Crio Jones, Edward Rhes-y-Cae Jones, Job Cilcain, Flintshire Jones, John Cilcain Jones, John Foel Pierce, William 43 Wife and 6 children Cilcain Yes Yes Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster Powell, Edward 59 Wife and 3(?) children Cilcain Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster Powell, Llewelyn Hersedd Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster Roberts, Bennet 35 Wife and 1 year-old son Ysceifiog Yes Yes Bryngwiog Lead Mine Disaster Roberts, Joseph Bryn Gwiog Williams, John Hendy Williams, William Llaneurgain