Entrapment disasters

People trapped underground or in workings, regardless of cause.

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2 disasters.

• Wheal Owles flooding disaster
  10 January 1893 · Flooding / Inundation · Cornwall · 20 fatalities
  Miners broke through into the flooded, long-abandoned workings of Wheal Drea, trapping and drowning twenty men and boys underground.
• Alderley Edge West Mine deaths
  May 1929 · Other · Cheshire · 2 fatalities
  Two men, George Etchells and Alfred Hadfield, died after going into the disused West Mine and losing their way in its passages; their bodies were not found for three months.