Pretoria Pit Disaster

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Pretoria Pit Disaster

Pretoria Pit Disaster

The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident that occurred on 21 December 1910, when there was an underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West England. A total of 344 men lost their lives.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria Pit Disaster

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