Senghenydd colliery disaster – A coal dust explosion occurs at a coal mine in the South Wales Coalfield, with fires hampering rescue efforts. Scofield Mine disaster – A coal mine is destroyed in a dust explosion, killing 200 workers from either the explosion or from asphyxiation after being trapped in the mine.Ĭourrières mine disaster – A coal dust explosion causes the worst mining disaster in Europe, causing a national outcry in France. Parc Slip Colliery explosion – A coal mine operated by John Brogden and Sons explodes.īraamfontein Explosion – A freight train loaded with dynamite explodes in a railway siding in a Johannesburg suburb. ġ887 Nanaimo mine explosion – A coal mine explodes in an explosives accident and kills 150 miners, including 53 Chinese Canadian laborers.
Regent's Park explosion – The barge Tilbury, carrying both petroleum and gunpowder, explodes, killing the crew and causing a great deal of damage. Tradeston Flour Mills explosion – A mill owned by Matthew Muir & Sons company suffered a dust explosion.ĭrummond Mine explosion – Canada's largest colliery explodes when a coal fire grows out of control. Yanwath explosion – A freight train on the West Coast Main Line in Cumberland carrying gunpowder derails and another freight train hits the gunpowder wagon, causing an explosion.
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Oaks explosion – A colliery in South Yorkshire suffers a series of explosions, causing one of the worst mining disasters in British history. Mobile magazine explosion – A former Confederate Army ordnance depot explodes. The Sultana disaster remains the worst maritime disaster in American history. Sultana steamboat disaster – An overloaded side-wheel steamboat carrying Union soldiers from Confederate prison camps burns down and sinks in the Mississippi River when its four boilers exploded. Great Train Wreck of 1856 – Two steam trains traveling on the North Pennsylvania Railroad collide head-on, causing the deadliest railroad crash at that time.Īllegheny Arsenal explosion – A Union Army ordnance depot explodes, causing the largest civilian casualty of the American Civil War.
Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead – During a large fire a bonded warehouse used to store combustibles such as sulphur and nitrate of soda explodes, killing onlookers and destroying the neighborhood. Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, England federal government establishing steamboat safety regulations, including the Steamboat Inspection Service.įaversham guncotton explosion – A guncotton factory in Faversham, one of the British Empire's primary munitions centers, explodes and kills 18 workers. Lucy Walker steamboat disaster – The Lucy Walker blows up in a boiler explosion on the Ohio River. President John Tyler and killed several members of his Cabinet. USS Princeton Disaster of 1843 – A gun on board USS Princeton exploded during a demonstration, killing six people. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Leiden gunpowder disaster – A ship carrying black powder for the Dutch Army during the War of the Fourth Coalition exploded, killing 150 people. ĭelft Explosion – A gunpowder magazine blew up, killing over 100 people and destroying a large part of the city.īrescia explosion – A gunpowder store blew up after being hit by lightning, killing between 400 and 3,000 people (reports vary) and destroying a large part of the city.ġ806 Birgu polverista explosion – A gunpowder magazine blew up, killing around 200 people and destroying part of the city's fortifications and many buildings. Wanggongchang Explosion – A Shenjiying armory of gunpowder and ammunition explodes during the late reign of the Tianqi Emperor, killing as many as 20,000 people.ġ634 Valletta explosion – A gunpowder factory blew up, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings including a church and a college. Dublin gunpowder explosion – 140 barrels of gunpowder, needed by the English army then fighting the Nine Years' War (1593–1603), exploded on the quays of Dublin and on Winetavern Street, destroying many buildings and killing up to 200 people.
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