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Birmingham Daily Mail 3/3/1902.
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There are other newspapers that cover the incident. Samuel was in the employ of Mr Enoch Richard's of Portway Farm. He was sent by a man named Brookes to Lye Cross Colliery for a cart load of ashes. The ashes mound was about 60ft high. Mr. Richards said it was contrary to his instructions that the boy was sent to the mound alone. The colliery manager said farmers and the public bodies were permitted to remove the ashes without payment. Hundreds of loads had been removed without accident. Another Accidental death.
Lye Cross Colliery belonged to Lord Dudley. In 1904 during a fire 11 horses roasted alive, and the colliery was closed for indefinite period. 200 men are thrown out of employment.
George Barnsby in his book, Social Conditions in the Black Country 1800–1900 (1980), has this to say about the Earls of Dudley.
“The Dudleys gave no lead to the area regarding safety in mines. In the middle of the century (1800s) their mines were no lesser death traps than those of other owners, and some of the ghastliest accidents of the century occurred in the Dudley mines.…..The Earl stood above the law and this immunity was fully utilised…..But the greatest indictment of the Dudleys is that they were chiefly responsible for the great evil from which most other abuses flowed, namely the perpetuation of the butty system……Thus the Earls of Dudley, far from using their immense influence to ameliorate social and economic conditions were an active, and in some some respects a decisive influence, in perpetuating disgraceful conditions…”
Lye Cross Colliery belonged to Lord Dudley. In 1904 during a fire 11 horses roasted alive, and the colliery was closed for indefinite period. 200 men are thrown out of employment.
George Barnsby in his book, Social Conditions in the Black Country 1800–1900 (1980), has this to say about the Earls of Dudley.
“The Dudleys gave no lead to the area regarding safety in mines. In the middle of the century (1800s) their mines were no lesser death traps than those of other owners, and some of the ghastliest accidents of the century occurred in the Dudley mines.…..The Earl stood above the law and this immunity was fully utilised…..But the greatest indictment of the Dudleys is that they were chiefly responsible for the great evil from which most other abuses flowed, namely the perpetuation of the butty system……Thus the Earls of Dudley, far from using their immense influence to ameliorate social and economic conditions were an active, and in some some respects a decisive influence, in perpetuating disgraceful conditions…”